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Dessert dish, belonging to Abraham Lincoln

Candelabrum, belonging to Abraham Lincoln

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois

Pressed metal picture of Abraham Lincoln's Home and neighborhood

Book, "Queens of England

Wallpaper, used in restoration efforts of Lincoln Home

Book, "Livingston's Law Register" (copy owned by Abraham Lincoln)

Cane, from Lincoln Home

Chair, from the residence of Ninian W. and Elizabeth Todd Edwards, brother-in-law and sister of Mary Todd Lincoln

Photographic print, of Henrietta Robinson

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

Necklace, Antebellum jewelry

Framed print of George Washington

Framed print of allegorical scene

Asahel Gridley, businessman, McLean County, Illinois

Sewing table, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln

Rocking chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln

Commemorative plate of Lincoln Home exterior

Rocking chair, owned and used by Mary Todd Lincoln

Soapstone Block, from Victorian/Antebellum Springfield, IL

The Railsplitter, Abraham Lincoln

Shadow box, Antebellum keepsake

Cane, made from a shoot of an apple tree which grew in the back yard of the Lincoln Home

Brick, part of north chimney of Lincoln Home

Book, "Acts and Resolutions Passed at the First Session of the Thirtieth Congress of the United States" (used by Abraham Lincoln during his service as a Representative to the 30th Congress)

Wallpaper, from bedroom of Abraham Lincoln

Tablecloth, possibly used by Lincoln family

Trim 3, from Lincoln's catafalque

Book, leatherbound Bible

Pennant, souvenir of Lincoln Home

Needlework kit

Framed print of allegorical subject

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 4

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 6

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 8

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 12

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 88

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 89

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 98

Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 101

Dessert dish, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Leaf-shape ironstone dish. Leaf has 11 lopes. Bottom turns back at both sides, forming handles. Impressed into underside: "J. Clementson" at top of circle. Inner circle reads "Ironstone China." Of English design/manufacture. L 9 3/8 x W 6 3/4".
Candelabrum, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Single-stick girandole candelabra, with marble base, turned bronze pedestal support, 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 151. H 16 1/2" x Base L 5" W 5".
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois, one of Lincoln's neighbors in Springfield, concerning the presidential election. DuBois served with Lincoln as Whig in the Illinois General Assembly, and in 1865, Lincoln recommended DuBois for Illinois State Auditor, a position he held for eight years. This letter was given to the University of Illinois as a gift of Leonora H...
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).
Book, "Queens of England
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Book, "Queens of England", published in New York City by D. Appleton & Co., 1861. Tooled leather binding, frontpiece. Book is signed by "Mary Lincoln 1860". 323 pages incl. illustrations and list of plates. L 11 3/4" x W 7 1/4" x H 1 1/2".
Wallpaper, used in restoration efforts of Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Blue, white, and gold wallpaper with floral and fleur-de-lies pattern. Fair condition, very dirty. One of six sections (LIHO 5420-5425) removed from the south wall of the northwest bedroom of the Lincoln Home during the 1987 restoration. Part five of six sections, comprising LIHO 5420-5425. L 60 7/8" x W 33 5/8".
Book, "Livingston's Law Register" (copy owned by Abraham Lincoln)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Livingston's Law Register, For 1852, containing the Post Office address of every lawyer in the United States. Published in New York, entered according to an act of Congress in the year 1851 by John Livingston. Printed by Neal and Pate. L 9" x W 5 7/8" x D 1".
Cane, from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tree-branch cane made from elm wood. Branch is in a natural state with smaller branches sawed off at intervals from top to bottom. Rustic appearance. Dark brown. L 37" x Diam. 1 3/8".
Chair, from the residence of Ninian W. and Elizabeth Todd Edwards, brother-in-law and sister of Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Victorian open balloon-back side chair. Top rail has carved flowers: two roses in middle, two nine-petal flowers with leaves at sides. Middle rail is curved and has four petal flowers with leaf motif. Modified shield-shaped seat, front legs Cyma curved and have leaf motif carving on front side, slightly rounded at back and sides into point feet. Back legs slightly curved, tw...
Photographic print, of Henrietta Robinson
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia photograph of Henrietta Robinson. Portrait, frame and mat identical to 7034. Marked on back: "Mrs. Henson Robinson/Born Henrietta Maria Keys/ July 29, 1839 in Spfd..." Pronounced evidence of former oval mat, paint chips on inner frame black band. Part of set with LIHO 7034. H 27 1/4" x W 23 1/4" x D 1 3/4" (frame).
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".
Necklace, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)back side contains three plumes, all under glass. Broken-braided human hair chain with clasp on top. L 1 5/8" x W 1 3/8".
Framed print of George Washington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wood and papier mache oval frame. Molded flowers at compass points. Remnants of scallop molding on rim, contains portrait of George Washington. He wears a dark suit with white shirt and high collar. He holds a sword in his left hand. L 18" x W 16".
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".
Asahel Gridley, businessman, McLean County, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Asahel Gridley, McLean County's first millionaire, had much to say about early farming. Gridley is recognized as one of the first citizens to arrive in Bloomington, Illinois. He arrived there in 1831 and played a role in the founding of the first newspaper and telegraph office. He was a prominent businessman, lawyer and a politician. He was also a friend of Abraham Linco...
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".
Rocking chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Low rocking chair, pierced-splat back. Two small flowers on top rails, side rails curve around to middle of seat. Seat modified shield shape, back leg bowed to rocker, front legs slightly curved, seat rail curved. H 29 1/2" x W 19" x D 16 1/2".
Commemorative plate of Lincoln Home exterior
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)and inscription "Imported for/Lincoln Souvenir & Gift Shop/Springfield, IL." H 2 Diam 25 cm.
Rocking chair, owned and used by Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)caned seat curved, rectangular, slightly sloping toward back. Front seat rail rounded, back and front legs bowed, rockers attached with pegs to side of legs rather than bottom. H 36" x W 17 1/2" x D 15 1/2".
Soapstone Block, from Victorian/Antebellum Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular soapstone block. Hewn rectangular iron at sides near top. H 17" L 9" D 2".
The Railsplitter, Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Railsplitter, oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1860. Chicago Historical Society collection.
Shadow box, Antebellum keepsake
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Deep oval shadow box, containing flower arrangement made from human hair. Rectangular box is set into oval frame, with small gilt band with carving and high-molded ridge in center. Frame and outside of box painted black, back unfinished, inside of box lined with yellow material. Part of the flower arrangement is crocheted, and the rest is plain hair. L 15" x H 4" x W 13".
Cane, made from a shoot of an apple tree which grew in the back yard of the Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Smooth-bark apple wood cane. Small limbs have been closely trimmed. Slightly curved at lower end.
Brick, part of north chimney of Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Painted chimney brick located May 1986. Stretcher and header on one side painted light chocolate brown with some mortar remnants. Very dirty, some chips. L 8 1/2" x W 4 1/16" x D 2".
Book, "Acts and Resolutions Passed at the First Session of the Thirtieth Congress of the United States" (used by Abraham Lincoln during his service as a Representative to the 30th Congress)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Acts and Resolutions Passed at the First Session of the Thirtieth Congress of the United States. Printed by Ritchie and Hess, printers, Washington. Published in 1848. Paper bound. Front cover missing, first pages darkly discolored and fragile. Four signatures, all "A. Lincoln", on front page, following page at top, on binding, and back. L 8 5/8" x W 5 1/2" x D 1".
Wallpaper, from bedroom of Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Irregularly shaped piece of wallpaper, resting on white paper in frame. Blue, gray, and light brown in color. Part of original wallpaper found in Lincoln bedroom. Brown wooden frame, paper backing. L 3 7/8" x W 7 3/8".
Tablecloth, possibly used by Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)White cotton tablecloth with fern pattern motif woven into fabric. Some staining, tears, fraying.
Trim 3, from Lincoln's catafalque
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black wool fringe. Cord is looped and sewn together to form tape. First continues to form tassels before next loop of tape. Tassels made by cord, twisting back on self. Additional, thinner, cord sewn diagonal across front of tape in long and short sections in pattern. Excellent condition. L 20" x W 6 1/16".
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".
Pennant, souvenir of Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Blue felt triangle with gold trim and blue tassels at end. Same end has silk-screened image of Lincoln Home in florescent colors. House is white with hot pink shutters, matching the brick retaining wall. Many multicolored trees surround. A flag pole is in the corner of the house. The perspective of the home is off, and some details are missing. As the pennant narrows, in whi...
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".
Framed print of allegorical subject
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)color lithograph shows stages of man's life from age 5 to 100 with accompanying age descriptions and allegorical images like a young tree with leaves on left, dead tree on right, figures ascend left to right in pyramid, various pictures of animals relate to each stage. H 10" x W 14".
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 4
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of a ferrotype believed to have been made in 1860. Miss Ida M. Tarbell published this portrait in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln in 1896, believing it was made about 1856. The photographer is not known.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 6
Image | 1857 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Hesler in Chicago, February, 1857. Known as the first Hesler photograph. It was used in the Lincoln-Douglas senatorial campaign. The negative is said to have been lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 8
Image | 1859 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph probably made by S. M. Fassett in Chicago in October, 1859. Mr. Truman H. Bartlett of Boston stated in 1910 in connection with his copy, Alexander Hesler of Chicago says he took this photograph in 1858. It is considered one of the best of the beardless photographs.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 12
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by Calvin Jackson, an itinerant ambrotypist in Pittsfield, Illinois, on October 1, 1858, six days before the fifth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Galesburg, Illinois.
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. 98
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 101
Image | 1857 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Hesler in Chicago, February, 1857. This and Number 6 were evidently made at the same time. The history of the negative is not known. There is a legend that Lincoln deliberately mussed up his hair before these portraits were made.

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