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

Silver' Penny, 1863
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The profile of an Indian maiden wearing a headdress, with "United States of America," around the edge, and the date, 1863, underneath.
The gun that killed Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fired this small derringer into the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head, inflicting a mortal wound. Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater. The gun is on exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Museum in Washington D.C., a National Park Service site.
Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth's boot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)John Wilkes Booth was wearing this boot the night that he shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington D. C. After shooting Lincoln and stabbing Major Rathbone, Booth leapt from the Presidential Box. Catching his foot on bunting draped on the front of the Presidential Box, he fell to the stage, breaking his left foot. The boot is on exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Muse...
Shattered caisson and dead horse, Gettysburg
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph b/w
Indian Head Cent, 1863
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The profile of an Indian Maiden wearing a feather bonnet, which probably has LIBERTY written across the band, although coin is so worn it's hard to see. Around the maiden is UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and below the date of issue.
Reward Broadside
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)her manner of speaking is rather grum. She has a free husband living on Capitol Hill, Washington City, near Sims' old rope walk, named Henson Forrest. I will give the above reward no matter where taken, so I get her again. F. M. Bowie, Long Old Fields, Prince George's County, Md., July 6, 1857." This broadside is on display in the Chicago Historical Society exhibit, "A House...
Private Edwin Francis Jennison
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Civil War Regiment
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Relief sculpture by Augustus Saint Gaudens shows Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
Art Print, commemorating the celebration and creation of a "National day of thanksgiving" by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black ink collage on newsprint of Civil War scenes, with center vignette of Lincoln receiving accolades from soldiers. Drawn by Thomas Nast. Titled "Thanksgving Day November 24, 1864." In center is large drawing of Abraham Lincoln shaking the hands of a soldier and a sailor who are staluting him with their hats. The soldier tramples the "Stars & Bars" flag marked "CS." Large...
Wars for Freedom Civil War, Parts 2 and 4 of 5
Audio | 1942 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Letter from A.S. Coe to Samuel A. Jones
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter from A.S. Coe to Samuel A. Jones dated September 29th, 1863 describing the battle of Gettysburg. Samuel A. Jones was a homeopathic physician and scholar of American Transcendentalism. He served as a Civil War surgeon.
Confederate field hospital, Antietam battlefield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
James Wilson Jessee
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A veteran of the Civil War, James Wilson Jessee worked as a farmhand after the war.
Two tine iron fork
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two tine iron fork with horn handle. Splits in the horn, and a stain on the handle base. 6.5" long
Slave Sale Broadside
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Credit Sale of a Choice Gang of Slaves, Comprising Mechanics, Laborers, etc. The sale, Tuesday, February 5, 1856, by J. A. Beard and Maj. J. a. Beard, auctioneer, was held for the settlement of a co-partnership of railroad contractors. The description of the sale of "A Very Valuable Gang of Slaves," is: "Belonging ot a co-partnership and sold to close the same. The said slav...
Dead rebel artillerymen near the Dunker Church, Antietam battlefield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
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
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...
Private, unidentified, 4th Michigan infantry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
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.
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...
Presidential Box where Lincoln was shot, Ford's Theater
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Presidential Box at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. looks much the same today as it did on the night of April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Exterior, Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was shot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. is a popular historic site, operated by the National Park Service. It has been restored to its appearance April 14, 1865, the night that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Front Parlor, Petersen House, the house where Lincoln died
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The front parlor of the Petersen House is restored to its appearance on the night of April 14-15, 1865. The house is operated by the National Park Service and is open to the public.
Cushing's Artillery Men
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Matthew B. Brady
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Confederate Five Dollar Bill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This five-dollar note is from The Augusta Insurance and Banking Company. The number 205 appears and "Will pay FIVE DOLLARS to bearer on demand." Then there is the word "Augusta," followed by an illegible word. The note is signed at the bottom by the cashier and the president, and around the edges is written "Five" and "State of Georgia." The paper is tan with black and red p...
Dead Union soldier on Gettysburg battlefield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Henry IV part I
Audio | 1942 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Wars for Freedom Civil War, Parts 2 and 4 of 5
Audio | 1942 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Liverpool address of Henry Ward Beecher
Audio | 1938 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)

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