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

Cabinet Photograph of Lincoln Home parlors
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia-tone print of Lincoln Home parlors, furnished as an exhibit area by Osborn Oldroyd. Framed prints and photos cover the walls, several busts and sculptures are on shelves and pillars on either side of doorway. Some items have large numbers on them. Several cases hold books. A horsehair sofa is on the left, a side chair on the right. Cradle is visible in back center of r...
Bric-a-brac (Small-handled cup featuring image of Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)uneven scalloped border has gilt, as does front half of handle. Peach irridescence surrounds scene on front half. Back half is white with gilt smears. H 7.2 Diameter with handle 8 cm.
Commemorative plate featuring Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)High relief and brightly colored plate featuring the Lincoln Home. Design covers entire plate. Shows front (west) view of home, behind fence and retaining wall. Flagpole in corner, with many trees. Blue banner at base of plate. House in brown with green shutters, gray roof and trim, between brackets at roofline. H 2.9 Diam 21 cm.
Pressed metal picture of Abraham Lincoln's Home and neighborhood
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pressed metal (possibly tin) picture and mat of Lincoln Home and neighborhood. Home exterior has large tree in front and a hitching post near street. In back are a small tree and three-bay barn. Mat has scrollwork and engraved plate on bottom, oak leaves, vine and acorns. Frame has three incised lines and rounded edges. L 36 W 28.4 D 2 cm (in frame).
Engraving, depicting Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Print of Lincoln Home, black ink on cream paper. SW corner of Home, short fence on retaining wall, flagpole on SW corner, two trees in front. Print area background darker and impressed, creating a self-mat "frame", printed signature on mat, signed in pencil: "Abraham Lincoln Home. Virginia Stuart Brown" & "Print 7- edition I." L 5 3/4" x W 4 3/4".
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 3 (1855-1861)
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)By 1855, the Lincoln home, little changed from the cottage purchased twelve years earlier, proved to be too small for the growing family. Lincoln hired local builders, Hannon and Ragsdale, to remodel the home. They removed the roofs and raised the house from one-and-one-half to two full stories. When the work was completed, Mary wrote to her sister, Emilie Todd Helm, "You wi...
Postcard of photo taken during Abraham Lincoln's funeral
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia-tone postcard of photo taken during Lincoln's funeral in 1865. Home is decorated with black flags and drapes at windows, white swags at roofline and vines in corners, for mourning. Large group of people in front and around yard. L 14.1 W. 8.8 cm.
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".
Postcard of the Lincoln Home (southwest view)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of the Lincoln Home from the southwest. House is white with black shutters. Large flagpole in corner behind fence. Lattice-type porch encloses front door. Square metal plaque mounted on front fence, with a sign to the right marked "Lincoln's Home". L 13.6 W 8.6 cm.
Photo of Richard M. Nixon signing Bill for Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photo of President Richard M. Nixon, signing the Bill creating the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, as part of the National Park Service, on August 18, 1971.
Print of the Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)young lady and boy (Emilie Helm & Tad?) stand at gate watching the Lincolns.
Photographic print of the Lincoln Home made from glass plate negative
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of the Lincoln Home made from glass plate negative. Photo showing on man and two children standing at south corner of house, and one person sitting on steps. Photograph is oval mounted on rectangular paper backing. Gold rings surround picture. "D.C. Pratt Photographic Artist, Aurora, Illinois" embossed on back. Photo probably taken from a neighbor'...
Stereograph from a room in Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia-toned stereograph of two nearly-identical photos, mounted side-by-side on tan cardboard. Shows washstand, towel rack, and kettles near a window. A large print hangs from rope and a small print is sitting on a sconce over the washstand. Washstand is stained dark, has turned corner posts, double doors, and a marble top. Two large white bowls sit on top with glass bottle ...
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 1 (1844-1846)
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Episcopal clergyman Charles Dresser married Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd on the evening of November 4, 1842. Eighteen months later on May 2, 1844, Dresser sold his house at Eighth and Jackson Streets to the Lincolns. The Lincolns then moved into the only home they would ever own. The purchase price was $1,500, consisting of $1,200 in cash plus a downtown lot and building wo...
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 2 (1846-1854)
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)On June 11, 1850, Lincoln wrote to Nathaniel Hay, a Springfield contractor, describing a brick retaining wall he wanted built: "I wish to build a front fence, on a brick foundation, at my house. I therefore shall be obliged, if you will, as soon as possible, deliver me brick of suitable quality, and sufficient number to build such a foundation, fifty feet long
Postcard featuring Lincoln Home at dusk (southwest view)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Number 2 in a set of 7 full-color, glossy finish postcards, featuring the Lincoln Home. Shows Lincoln Home exterior from the southwest at dusk. L 15.1 W 10.6 cm.
Framed print of humorous scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)and one of the girls, using another fishing pole, has removed the man's toupe. L 13 1/2" x W 9 1/2".
Postcard, depicting Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photo postcard showing white-painted Lincoln Home with black shutters. Large flagpole on corner, two plaques on either side of gate. One corner are a fire hydrant, mailbox, and sign saying "Lincoln Home". In background, two smokestacks can be seen. On front steps is house number "430", and a black mailbox is seen on the door frame. L 5 1/2" x W 3 1/2".
President Gerald R. Ford Speaking at the Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photo of President Gerald R. Ford, waving, in front of the Lincoln Home, March 1976. Ford stands behind a podium, posted before the Front (west) entrance to the Lincoln Home.
Postcard showing Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Color postcard circa 1950's, showing Lincoln Home from the direction of the Dean House (west-northwest). Cannon and lightpost in foreground. L 14 W 9 cm.
Drawing of the Rear Parlor of the Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing of the Rear Parlor of the Lincoln Home, facing east, as it appeared in late 1860 or early 1861. Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on March 9, 1861.
Bric-a-brac (Mold-cast ceramic figurine of the Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Highly detailed mold-cast ceramic figurine of the Lincoln Home. Home is set in a very abbreviated back yard, surrounded by brown picket fence and white board fence. Brick sidewalk in front, boardwalk on side. Two small trees surrounded by support cages balance the front. L 13.3 W 11 H 8.5 cm.
Commemorative plate showing Lincoln Home exterior and large flagpole on corner
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)White plate printed in blue with gold accents, showing Lincoln Home exterior and large flagpole on corner. Large trees surround house. Olive branches form band on outside rim with gold "Illinois" and "1972" on a ribbon at bottom. On back, small hole in foot used for hanging. H 2.1 Diam 19 cm.
Page 414 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper for Nov. 17, 1860
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)ads appear on the rest of the page. L 15 7/8" x W 10 7/8".
Carte-de-Visite of Lincoln Home draped in mourning
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia-toned print of Lincoln Home draped in mourning with the simple Tilton (renters living in Lincoln Home in 1865) draping. View from SW corner, with a group of men standing in front and behind fence. Black cloth drapes from windows across front of house and part of sides. Small tree in front and some trees to side. L 3 7/8" x W 2 3/8".

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