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Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 99

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 104

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 107

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 81

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 88

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 89

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 93

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 94

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 95

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 13

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 17

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 25

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 31

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 39

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 55

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 57

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 61

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 66

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 67

Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin, 1858-1930

The gun that killed Lincoln

Bust of poet Robert Burns

Framed print of allegorical scene

The room where Lincoln died

Print of the Lincoln Family in the White House

Print of Lincoln's funeral procession in Chicago, IL

Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 3 (1855-1861)

The Railsplitter, Abraham Lincoln

Book, "A Compilation of the Statutes of the State of Illinois, N.H. Purple, Part II (Chicago: Keen & Lee, 1856)

Footstool, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln

Booklet, patriotic lyrics from the Civil War

Earrings, Antebellum jewelry

Political medallions, depicting ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

Commemorative Coin, depicting Lincoln and slogans

Letter, from Orville Hickman Browning (recovered from Lincoln Home)

Spittoon, typical of earthenware ceramics available to Abraham Lincoln in midwestern Illinois

Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln

Trundle toy, made by Abraham Lincoln

Trim 2, from Lincoln's catafalque

National Lincoln Monument certificate

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 99
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 104
Image | 1862 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Detail from an 8" x 10" photograph made by Mathew B. Brady about October 2, 1862, as the President sat in General George B. McClellan's tent at Antietam, Maryland. Different from Number 43.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 107
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Mathew B. Brady in 1863, different from Number 75. An enlarged copy by Gurney & Son of New York was widely circulated.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 81
Image | 1864 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Mathew B. Brady on February 9, 1864. This is one of the celebrated portraits known as the Brady profiles. The original glass negative is in the Meserve Collection.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 88
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Thomas Walker, probably in 1863. Captain O. H. Oldroyd, the proprietor of the Lincoln Museum in the house on Tenth Street in Washington where Lincoln died, stated that Mr. Walker was an amateur photographer, an employee of the Treasury Department.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 89
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Detail from an 8" x 10" photograph made by Alexander Gardner of the second inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1865. The President is sitting without a hat at the left of the reading desk. On his right is Andrew Johnson, the Vice President. The Justices of the Supreme Court are at the right of the reading desk.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 93
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by H. F. Warren of Waltham, Massachusetts, at the White House on March 6, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 94
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 95
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865, with the second son Thomas (Tad).
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 13
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by William Judkins Thompson at Monmouth, Illinois, on October 11, 1858, two days before the sixth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Quincy, Illinois. Mr. Lincoln spoke for three hours at Monmouth.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 17
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype believed to have been made by Preston Butler in Springfield in 1858. McClure's Magazine of March, 1896, stated it was copied from a carbon enlargement of the ambrotype of June, 1860, but the style of collar worn by Mr. Lincoln seems to place it in the earlier year.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 25
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)they are now in the Smithsonian Institution.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 31
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by an unknown photographer, probably made in Spring field in the summer of 1860.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 39
Image | 1864 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the President and Thomas (Tad) made by Mathew B. Brady on February 9, 1864, as Mr. Lincoln looked at an album of photographs in Brady's studio. It was used by Mr. Francis B. Carpenter in the painting of the Lincoln family. The original glass negative is in the Meserve Collection.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 55
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863, the day before the new gallery of the Gardner Brothers was opened to the public.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 57
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 15, 1863, four days before the speech at Gettysburg. Here, as in Number 58, the envelope containing Senator Everett's speech may be seen on the table.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 61
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 8, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 66
Image | 1862 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady believed to have been made in 1862.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 67
Image | 1862 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady believed to have been made in 1862.
Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin, 1858-1930
Image | John Starr Stewart Ex Libris CollectionPortrait of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by wreath over a mantelpiece with books and candlestick.
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.
Bust of poet Robert Burns
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)wavy hair, combed forward. Marked "Burns, mark C 107". H 8".
Framed print of allegorical scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Voyage of Life - Youth. Artist's print by Thomas Cole. Engraved by James Smillie and published in Boston by L.A. Elliot, 322 Washington St. Poem stanza is found on each side of the title. Scene depicts an angel waving farewell to youth in gondola-type vessel. Youth looks to celestial palace in the sky. H 21" x W 26 1/2".
The room where Lincoln died
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Petersen rooming house was across the street from Ford’s Theater. Lincoln was carried there after he was shot. He lived through the night and died early the next morning.
Print of the Lincoln Family in the White House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)President Lincoln and Family Circle. Tinted portrait of Abraham and Mary Lincoln with their three sons in the White House. Classical decorations with views of water and US Capitol Building out the windows. Green center table. L-R, Robert in military uniform, Mary in orange dress with flowers in hair, Tad in blue uniform. Willie and Mr. Lincoln in black, Willie reads a book. ...
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...
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...
The Railsplitter, Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Railsplitter, oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1860. Chicago Historical Society collection.
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".
Footstool, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned footstool, oval top with rectangular caned area. Turned legs, bun turning at end with peg legs, round stretchers. L 14" x H 9 1/2" x W 11".
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", ...
Earrings, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)circle of metal at top, one part of which goes through the ear. L 1 3/8" x W 1 1/8".
Political medallions, depicting ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hollow metal ring around ferrotype images of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Ring embossed with vine design, hole for hanging at top. Black and white ferrotypes, beardless Lincoln, both in dark suits, white shirts. Obverse: "Abraham Lincoln". Reverse: "Hannibal Hamlin". Diam 1 1/8" x H 1/8".
Commemorative Coin, depicting Lincoln and slogans
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper coin showing Abraham Lincoln and slogans. Profile of Lincoln, beardless, facing right, inscriptions around rim. Back has laurel wreath around slogan & inscriptions along rim, on bottom is engraver's name. Obverse: "Abraham Lincoln Born Feb.12.1809" Reverse: "Republican Candidate 1860/No More/Slave/Territory" Diam 1 1/4" x D 1/16".
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.
Spittoon, typical of earthenware ceramics available to Abraham Lincoln in midwestern Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Basic circular shape spittoon, with 12 ribs, pinched waist around outside, top sloped downward and into round opening 6.5 cm in diameter. Finish is Bennington-style, brown, gold, and cream speckled. Drain opening near top rim, some crazing, chips of finish out of rim. Diam. 14 1/4" x H 6 5/8".
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...
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...
Trim 2, from Lincoln's catafalque
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Silver thread and wire fringe segment. 3/8" wide tape of silver thread, very thin wire thread tassels are attached close together. Silver tassels, twisted into spiral pattern, all same length. L 22 7/16" x W 4".
National Lincoln Monument certificate
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1869 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A certificate issued to Josephine Carson for her contribution of fifty cents "to the erection of a Monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, our martyred President." This copy was signed by J.H. Beveridge.