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

Memento Mori Abraham Lincoln poster
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1865 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster of Abraham Lincoln, "Memento Mori." This broadside features Lincoln's birth and assassination dates and the phrase "Just of his Word - Observant of his Right.
Lincoln Ox Yoke
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wooden ox yoke crafted by a young Abraham Lincoln during his years in New Salem. The frame is made of wood from the original flooring of Lincoln's Springfield home.
Chest of drawers, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Classic Empire-style chest of drawers. Square feet, four drawers, with wooden knobs. Top drawer overhangs lower drawers. Two modified bun-shaped turning just below overhang on either side, on casters. L 43" x H 40 1/2" x W 19".
Candelabra, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Single-stick girandole candelabra, with marble base, turned bronze pedestal support, three-branched stem. Cast-bronze piece with flowers and pair of turtle dove designs. Pedestal has remnants of burnished design. Triangular star/ snowflake cut glass prisms hang from cast bronze round. In set with LIHO 150 and 152. H 17 1/2" x Base L 5" x W 5".
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...
Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two-drawer small sewing table. Pedestal rectangular post, rectangular base, four modified feet. L 24" x H 27 1/2" x W 20".
Lounge, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Serpentine back, one-armed upholstered sofa, modified Late Empire style. Couch has sloped arm, headrest, curved upholstered ends, 3/4th low serpentine back, extra-length, and four turned legs with bun feet on coasters. Reupholstered by Clifford Putman in Springfield, IL 1953. H. 32 1/2", Base L. 67", Arm Rest estends 12", total L. 79" D. 22" Seat H. 16 1/2".
Commemorative Ribbon
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)White silk ribbon wound on round wooden core. Extremely fragile. Diam. 2 3/8".
Chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat Empire side chair. Seat is a modified shield shape, with raised rim, front, and sides. 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. H 32" x W 17" x D 15 1/2".
Wood stove, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Royal Oak iron cook stove on four cabriole legs. Had rounded apron front. Stove curves in toward back. Bent stove pipe. Molded rims, leaf and rosette molding on doors. L 40" H 27" W 31".
Shawl, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Crocheted white wool shawl. Very large, rectangular with rounded corners, scalloped edges, ribbon run through before border. Very soft wool. L 83" W 72".
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.
Rocking chair, belonged to Pickarel family (friends of Abraham Lincoln)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black horsehair-upholstered rocking chair with partially upholstered arms. Back curved, ending in slight scroll. Arms curve around to front and back, up to underside of arms, with fleur de lis and curved design. Bottom edge of front seat rail has molded rim, back legs bowed slightly to rocker, front less so. H 39" x W 20" x D 19".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair with rush seat. Black with gold lines and stenciling. Top rail has stenciled tulip, middle rail has stenciled grapes, knees have stenciled leaf. Turned bulbous stretcher in front, two stretchers side, one in back. L 34" x W 18" x D 14".
Cabinet Photograph, showing the Lincoln Home draped in mourning
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia-toned photoprint mounted on cardboard. Original photo is oval & shows Lincoln Home draped in mourning with a delegation of men & one boy in front. Other people and Carrigan house visible in background. On back is list of "Photographs for sale at the Lincoln Homestead... O.H. Oldroyd, State Custodian." No. 7 is a view of Home taken on the day of Lincoln's funeral. Origi...
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...
Watch Chain from Early/Mid-Victorian Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Choker-type chain made out of brown braided hair. Has brass hook and clasp at ends, and a mother-of-pear and brass piece in the middle. Brass pieces are heavily decorated. L 14 1/2".
Bust of poet Robert Burns
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)wavy hair, combed forward. Marked "Burns, mark C 107". H 8".
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".
Drapery fragment, from Lincoln family home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drapery panel of woven damask material in a vertical floral pattern. Wool and silk. Predominate color burgundy red. Other colors inclucde silver, two shades of gold. Four tears along edges and fourteen holes of varying sizes. L 50 7/8" x W 22 3/8".
Sculpture, "The Council of War
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Painted plaster sculpture, "The Council of War" by John Rogers from 1868. Shows Abraham Lincoln seated in a draped chair, reading a document held in both hands. Ulysses S. Grant stands over Lincoln's right shoulder, pointing at the document. Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War, stands to Lincoln's left, cleaning his glasses. A second document lays ignored on the floor. Title...
Commemorative coin, Lincoln with railsplitter image
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper-coated medal of Abraham Lincoln with railsplitter image. Beardless Lincoln looks left with motto around rim "The President of the U.S. 1861" & "Copyright Secured" on bottom. Reverse has tall man splitting log in front of rail fence, with cabin & setting sun in background, "The Railsplitter of 1830" around rim. Diam. 1 1/2" x H 1/16".
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".
Framed print of young mother
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The First Care/The Young Mother, lithograph showing young mother in red dress sitting on bed with young child who is sleeping. A dog with brown blotches, possibly a setter, lies at mother's feet. L 14" x W 10".
Watercolor print
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Watercolor print of a single red rose, with two small birds and green foliage. In plain oval frame. H 10" x W 8".
Framed print of Martha Washington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)remnants of scallop molding on rim. Contains picture of Martha Washington wearing dark dress with white lace collar, cuffs and cap. She is seated at a table and holds a book. L 18" x W 16".
Photographic print of Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)large tree in front, other houses immediately next to and behind, with outbuildings in back. Oldroyd, in bowler hat, stands near corner, looking away from camera, hitching post nearby at end of sidewalk. L 14.1 W 10 cm.
Dinner Plate, from the Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Deep-bowled, light blue transferware plate. 14-sided edge. Narrow band of leaves on rim, wide band of small parallel lines in ripple/wave effect. Central scene: tower surrounded by columned building, on lake with two sailboats & one rowboat. Back has English registry mark (diamond) & trademark eagle & shield. Some discoloration. Diam 10 7/16" x D 1 3/8".
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...
Globe, used to educate and identify stars and major constellations
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mounted Celestial globe marked with positions of stars and constellation figures. Tan background, black stars, quadrant marks and lettering. Green, brown and red constellations. Circled vertically by brass band with scale on one side, round brass scale at top of globe. Marked "Cary's New Celestial Globe". Inpainted black stand with four turned legs & cross stretchers. Of Eng...
Lincoln-Hamlin political banner
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Handsewn Lincoln-Hamlin banner, resembling a reversed U.S. flag. 13 red & white stripes alternate, beginning and ending with white. Dark blue field in upper right corner. Printed on middle white stripes: "Lincoln/And/Hamlin". L 77 1/2" x W 43".
Cane, from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Plain turned wood cane with paper label attatched certifying authenticity. Rounded top, tapers slightly to rounded end. End has 1 cm turning hole in center. Most of paper label has flaked off. Thin decorative border, does not completely wrap around label. L 36 1/2" x Diam. 1" to 1/2".
Rocking chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany with black upholstered horsehair rocker. Upholstered back. Seat and pillows on arm rails. Gondola-type arm, curving into circular arm that ends with a modified lotus flower turned into the circle. Head crest rail has carved flower (lotus), flanked by a large leaf on each side. Runners and legs are without decoration. 13 buttons on the upholstery. Front legs have a p...
Marbles found on Lincoln Home site
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Various glass and clay marbles, found during archaeological surveys of the Lincoln Home site. The marbles vary in age and appearance. Diam. 0.8-2.5 cm.
Credit card featuring Springfield/Lincoln related images
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)and Lincoln himself (taken from the "$5 bill" portrait of 1864). In center, Visa symbol, and hologram in lower right corner with hole in middle, silver raised numbers and name on front. On the back is a deactivated magnetic strip, paper signature strip, disclaimer and INB logo. L 8.52 W 5.4 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.
Dinner Plate, belonging to the Lincoln Family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)China dinner plate of English manufacture. Gray transfer pattern of a castle scene in center. Rim has repeated pattern of a different castle. Numeral 20 is impressed into bottom of plate. Diam. 10 1/4".
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".
Chair, used by Abraham Lincoln at his law office at Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Stained hardwood office chair in a modified Windsor-style. Horseshoe-shaped back with eight round spokes. H 29" x W 14" x L 20".

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