Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 5
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of the Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 5. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensi...
Private, unidentified, 4th Michigan infantry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Cake Stand, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Glass cake plate on stand, pedestal base, turned stem, fluted column effect at top of stem. Plate has rim side, base is hollow, but stem is solid. H 8", Diam. 11".
Seashell, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Abalone seashell. One half of seashell, outside has encrustations, five holes, mother-of-pearl lining inside. L 7 1/2" W 5 3/4".
Photograph of Mary Ann 'Mother' Bickerdyke
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of Mary Ann Bickerdyke wearing a dark blouse with a shawl. On her blouse she is wearing two medals. Dimensions: 4.25"x6.5".
The dead, collected for burial, after the battle of Antietam
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Three Confederate soldiers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Company cooks of the Army of the Potomac
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Dead rebel artillerymen near the Dunker Church, Antietam battlefield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Ringgold, Ga.
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of Ringgold, Georgia. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensions: 8"x10".
Print, Card
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)3.75" x 2.325" political card with Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson on the front. From an engraving, fine detail. On the reverse in ink is written "Mr. E.A. Shult" and "Published by Golden and Sammons, No. 1 Clark St., Chicago" is printed on the reverse as well.
Secretary, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tall secretary desk with glass front, four bookcases on top, enclosed bottom cupboard, fold-out desk tray. Bookcase has double doors wtih six panes of glass in each door, desk tray which is covered with green felt, rests on two pullout sticks with small gold knobs. Bottom cupboard has double doors with two rectangular wooden panels. Dimensions: Bookcase H. 54 1/2" L. 48"...
Dining table, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drop-leaf, gate-leg, walnut Empire style dining room table. Gate legs hinged on left side, folding into right side of base. Six legs, turned, with rings at various intervals. Rounded turning near foot, with rounded feet. H. 28" L. 40" W. 43 1/2", Leaves W. 17", Center W. 19".
Chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat Late Empire side chair. Seat is a modified shield shape. Back has two curved rails. Back legs are slightly curved, front legs cyma curve. Wide, flat, bowed stretcher at front, two rounded stretchers at each side. One round stretcher at back. Identical to LIHO 26 & 27. H 32" x W 16" x D 16".
Loveseat, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small mahogany sofa or loveseat, black horsehair upholstery, serpentine rail with carved rose and open Molding. Legs and seat rail have carvings as well. Legs have carved petals, and center has fruit-like carving (pineapple?). Thin arms, top rail ends with scrolls, sofa seat wedge-shaped, arms curve into back. L 66" x H 19" x D 20".
Jar, typically used during Abraham Lincoln's residence in Springfield, IL 1844-1861
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pottery jar with round base and slightly flared sides. Has nip in rounded flare lip. Yellowish glaze on outside, but does not cover all the way to bottom. Inside is ridged, lightly glazed. H 6 3/4" Diameter 4 3/4".
Cushion, typical of fabrics available to Abraham Lincoln in mid-western Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular shaped cusion with khaki colored fabric on bottom and three sides. Top is blue and khaki, resembling pillow ticking. Front edge is blue cut velvet, as is cord around the top. W 17 5/8" x D 15 3/8" H 3 3/4".
Rocking chair, belonging to the Lincoln Family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small black horsehair-upholstered rocking chair. Very low arms from front seat rail at seat height, running back rising to little knobs at elbow height. Bottom rim on front seat rail. Front legs modified cabriolet, back bowed rockers curve down at back and are cut off at front. H 32 3/4" x W 20" x D 17".
Latch Assembly, believed to be original hardware, installed by Lincoln circa 1855
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Shutter latch keeper. Metal bent to form right angle. One leg has two screw holes, other leg has rectangular hole (7/8" x 1/2") in center bottom. Thickly covered in cracked, light brown paint on top, sides, and bottom, except around screw hole leg.
Booklet, recovered from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Booklet. "Speech of M ____ Wilson, of N. Hampshire,/ The Political Influence of Slavery..." Printed on the last leaf is "16", providing pages in length. L 3 1/2" x W 6 5/8".
Cane, from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tree-branch cane made from elm wood. Branch is in a natural state with smaller branches sawed off at intervals from top to bottom. Rustic appearance. Dark brown. L 37" x Diam. 1 3/8".
Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 'Mississippi' is a relatively small locomotive, even for its day. The locomotive's smokestack is twelve feet high, seven feet wide, and fourteen feet long. Behind the locomotive's engine is a flatcar that is seven feet wide and eight feet long. This flat car carried the locomotive's firewood and water. Both the locomotive and flatcar are painted black with white trim. Th...
Bracelet, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)and engraved brass catches on either side of stone. Crocheted band has two open bands with double crocheted band in the middle. L 6 3/4" x W 3/4".
Pennant, souvenir of Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Blue felt triangle with gold trim and blue tassels at end. Same end has silk-screened image of Lincoln Home in florescent colors. House is white with hot pink shutters, matching the brick retaining wall. Many multicolored trees surround. A flag pole is in the corner of the house. The perspective of the home is off, and some details are missing. As the pennant narrows, in whi...
Photographic print, depicting the Ninian W. Edwards Home, Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduced photo of the Ninian W. Edwards Home, Springfield, IL. Taken directly from front. House has two distinct sections and two low wings on either section. Left section has wing, deep porch, double windows, mansard roof, and vertical board door. Right section is set up from left, arch fanlight over door on left, bracketed style (also on left). Snow on ground, two small ...
Framed print of barnyard scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Interior scene of a barn with animals (horses, pigs, goat, rabbits, ducks, cat, rooster, pigeons, goose) and man and woman. Horses stand to right of scene. Black horse is covered with a blanket that a cat is laying on. Center of picture shows the middle beams with harnesses hanging from it and the farmer's wife holding a rabbit in her apron. Farmer is in left scene reaching ...
Book, leatherbound Bible
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)red, green, & brown ribbons sewn down the spine. Main page: "Butler's Edition, The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments..." Family births, deaths, & marriages on special pages between Apocrypha and New Testament. L 11 1/2" x W 10 3/8" x H 4".
Book, "A Compilation of the Statutes of the State of Illinois, N.H. Purple, Part II (Chicago: Keen & Lee, 1856)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Compilation of the Statutes of the State of Illinois, N.H. Purple, Part II (Chicago: Keen & Lee, 1856). Stamped with ink on inside back cover page, "Property of O.H. Oldroyd". Binder torn but still complete. L 9 3/4" x W 6 11/16" x D 2 1/4".
Booklet, patriotic lyrics from the Civil War
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Thin, softcover booklet of patriotic lyrics from the Civil War (1861-1865). Pink cover with picture of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Inner cover 38-star flag, back cover features eagle, shield, and flag. Lyrics illustrated with insignia and pictures. Cover: "The Good Old Songs/We Used To Sing./Price Ten Cents/Published BY O.H.Oldroyd/..." Titles include "Marching Through Georgia", ...
Bust of Abraham Lincoln by Leonard Volk, 1860
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)on back of base "Abraham Lincoln Modeled from Life by Leonard V. Volk, Chicago, 1860."
Pass in the Raccoon Range, No. 1
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of the Pass in the Raccoon Range, No. 1. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensions: 8...
Slave Shackles, c. 1850
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Plantation owners and overseers used heavy iron shackles to punish and humiliate defiant slaves, both men and women and especially those who tried to run away. Slaves who had been sold were also shackled while being moved to another location. Arm and leg shackles were the most common type of restraints, but stocks, neck collars, and the ball and chain were also used. This pa...
Cradle, used by Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Large cradle of black walnut on rockers. Sides have turned dowels, ends are solid with curved top. Slats hold mattress. H 31 1/2" x W 29 1/2" x L 48 3/8".
Daybed, belonging to Lincoln Family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned day bed. Two caned round arms fit onto bed with screw key. Ring-turned legs and supports, opens up and has 13 round supports for mattress, etc. The mattress is missing. L 54" H 28" x W 26 1/2".
Cream pitcher, belonging to the Lincoln Family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ceramic cream pitcher. Cream color, octagonal base, rounded octagonal shape. H 2 1/4" x W 6" x D 2 1/4".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair, painted black with gilt stencilings, turned side rails, top rail and middle splat stenciled. Front legs and front stretcher turned, single side and back stretchers. H 35" x W 14" x D 14".
Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 1
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of the Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 1. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensi...
Print of homes of famous Americans
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wood engraving showing a collage of homes in various "frames", surrounded by dasies. Homes are numbered and ID'd with a key. Homes are: Webster, Washington, Lincoln and Garfield birthplaces, Monticello, Mt. Vernon, Lincoln Home, and the Hermitage. Lincoln Home has large tree blocking the view from front, with a lean-to attached to kitchen. Lincoln Home is #6. L 10" x W 7".
Fort Sumter, interior view
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of an interior view of Fort Sumter. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensions: 8"x10".
Print of Lincoln's funeral procession in Chicago, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Funeral Service of President Lincoln at Chicago, Illinois. May 1- Removing the Coffin From the Funeral Train to the Catafalque- From a Photograph by Alschuler. Lithograph on newsprint, mounted on white paper. Large crowd lines street, soldiers carry coffin toward large catafalque under canopy. Catafalque under center of three arches with various mottos on them, many flags an...

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