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

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".
Framed print of summer scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cottage Life - Summer, lithograph showing young boy in red playing stick-n-hoop on walk leading to white Greek-revival style mansion. Mother in red skirt and white blouse sits with two daughters under tree. Daughters are playing with dolls. In background are two or three gentlemen on horseback. L 17" x W 12 3/4".
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".
Stickpin, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)setting has four molded roses and thistles on outer edge, rope around stone is braid of human hair, set under glass. Long sticker/ pin is twisted in middle. L 3" x W 5/8".
End table, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Lamp table with removable marble top on walnut turned pedestal. Pedestal does not reach to the ground, and is supported by four incurved cut-out legs with ceramic castors connected to the center pedestal. Brace is stenciled with black ink on top "Nutt & Barkley Springfield, ILL." L 30" x W 21 1/2".
Trundle toy, made by Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wheeled cart with solid axles. Main body is rectangular block. Two thin boards run perpendicular on top and bottom of block with short pivots. Wheels screw to pivots. In center top, thin board also runs perpendicular, with two knobs on ends. Under one knob is a short pivoting lever. Center body covered with thin leather or paper. All lacquered. Large hole drilled in front. L...
Easy chair, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Upholstered lady's chair. Victorian Rococco style. Exposed walnut trim, medium stain. Chair back crest carved with two closed buds hanging upside-down, flanked by open roses, leaves and scrolls. Upholstered arm rests. Fabric is blue silk brocade with a raised, swirled floral pattern faded to a gold color. Back front has two horizontal rows of deep-buttoned tufting halfway up...
Letter, a request made seeking assistance in obtaining "A commssion in the Army" (recovered from Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Light blue two-leaf folio, begins: "Spring ___/Dec. 28th 1847/Hon. A. Lincoln/ Dear Sir./ I hope that I shall not trespass too much upon your time..." Signature is missing due to loss of paper, along with paper at all four corners. Several small holes in body of letter, and areas of discoloration. L 9 7/8" x W 7 7/8".
Letter, from Orville Hickman Browning (recovered from Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter. "Quincy Illinois March 10th 1846." Four pieces of a letter, all from the same communique. Most likely from Orville Hickman Browning.
Chest of drawers, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Late Empire-style bureau with upper tier of three small drawers, on body of four drawers. Upper tiers are concave, small knobs for handles, center one does not match others. Main body has upper drawer with ogee molded front, lower three are recessed and bracketed by applied S-scrolls in 3/4 relief down outer edges, resting on square plinth at bottom of last drawer. Each draw...
Wardrobe, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)back is composed of seven horizontal boards. Wardrobe rests on a platform comprised of two planks, held off the floor by four short, turned, tapered round legs that terminate in bun feet. W 48" x H 76" x D 18 1/2".
Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Veneered work table. Rectangular base with carved scroll bracket feet, pedestal supporting top is rectangular post, narrowing toward top. Two drawers under nearly square top, each drawer is concave with two circular wooden knobs. Drawers are stacked to form box under top, while top projects over box slightly. L 19 3/4" x W 19" x H 26 5/8".
Framed print of religious subject
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)woman sitting next to him with arm around his shoulder. Man wears black clothing, woman wears blue dress with white shawl. H 14" x W 10"
Letter, soliciting Lincoln's assistance in an application for a patent of a medicine (recovered from Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)____ln M.C./...City/D.C. (M.C., "Member of Congress"). L 6 1/2" x W 4 3/4".
Announcement, from the Logan and Lincoln law office
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Written document from the Logan and Lincoln law office, giving details of legal case. Filman Hornbuckle v. John Parkepile in Menard County, regarding a stolen black horse. Written in black ink (slightly faded), signed by Lincoln as "Logan & Lincoln, P.G." L 9 1/4" x W 7 3/8".
Newspaper, recovered from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Illinois State Journal/Springfield September 6, 1855 Vol. VIII. No. 70 The top part of the right four columns can be seen. These include the following headings: an 1855 calendar, "Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance Co.", "Business Notices", and "Miscellaneous." L 9 1/2" x W 10 3/4".
Letter, recovered from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter. "Wednesday Night./March 11, 1846./Friend Lincoln./Your epistle of 8... (letter of two paragraphs follows).../Yours Infinitely/ David ___ckin__on." On the address side of the folio, "A. Lincoln Esq/Springfield/Illinois." In the upper left corner is a round postmark "Lacon/Mar/18/ILL." There is no writing on the interior of the folio. H 9 1/2" x W 7 5/8".
Needlework kit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)rest has an expandable pocket, three increasingly-sized swatches for pins, pocket for scissors, and a pocket with flap at the end. Green grosgrain ribbons on opposite edge of roll to tie closed, other side one piece of red silk with green leather edging. L 22" (with ribbon tie) x W 6" Diam 1 3/4".
Loveseat, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Victorian Rococco style loveseat with exposed walnut trim. Horizontal oval medallion back, flared wing sides, padded arm rests. Carved crest has two upside-down rose buds flanked by open roses, leaves, and scrolls. Upholstery of rose silk brocade with raised floral pattern in same color. Backs of medallion and wings depp-button tufted with double rows of button half-way up. ...
Easy chair, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Upholstered Gentlemen's balloon-backed chair. Victorian Rococco style. Exposed walnut trim, medium stain. Chair back crest carved with two closed buds hanging upside-down, flanked by open roses, leaves and scrolls. Upholstered arm rests. Fabric is blue silk brocade with a raised, swirled floral pattern faded to a gold color. Back front has two horizontal rows of deep-buttone...
Book, "Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois. M. Brayman, 1845. L 9" x W 5 3/4" x D 2 3/8".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Empire-style gondola chair. Side stiles and crest rail are joined to appear as one sweeping piece, bottom edge of crest rail cut out to form scrolls. Splat is vase-shaped - no shoe where joined to seat rail. Serpentine front seat rail with protruding convex molding on bottom edge, front cabriole legs perpendicular to rail. Back-curved saber legs angle out from body. Slip sea...
Marriage certificate, from the wedding of E.S. Barnes and Caroline Inslee
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Yellowed marriage certificate for the wedding of E.S. Barnes and Caroline Inslee on November 24, 1842, in Springfield. The certificate is signed by N.W. Matheny. Note below printed area in ink: "Solemnized by me on the/day and date above written/Charles Dresser." Marked on back: "E.S. Barnes & Caroline S. Inslee No. 2802." L 7 3/4" x W 6".
Dry sink from Early Victorian Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Zinc-lined dry sink washstand. Bracket feet, bottom divided into panelled cupboard and two drawers, one false, one real, and side-by-side on top of cubboard. Interior has one section deeper than other. Hinged top folds down. L 30" x H 30 1/2" x W 17".
Wall mirror, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular gilt gesso on wood molding frame mirror. Top outer edge is bevelled away from mirror, 1/2" wide, remainder of mirror slopes inward. One incised line 1/2" from outer ridge. 1" wide molding bevel cut to mirror outer ridge is closest to glass. Back of frame is flat with wide incised line 1 1/2" from outer edge. Mirror held in place by glued blocks and backed with se...

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