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

Easy chair, typical during mid-19th century
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Large ballon-back upholstered easy chair or armchair. Front legs on casters, leg and arm finger-carved, knee and back also finger-carved. Top of arm upholstered, back seat and arms upholstered in black horsehair w/ upholstery tacks. Modified shield-shaped seat. H 40" x W 23" x D 21".
Wall clock, typical of timepieces during Lincoln's lifetime
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Walnut wall clock, "E. Howard & Co." on round clock face. Roman numerals, 2nd hand small face with Arabic numerals in 10's. Pendulum works in case with partial glass front. Cornice base, molding around face, housing, and case. Pendulum round with circulinear decorations, pointed tip, calibrated scale at bottom, mirror in back. H 60 3/4" x W 19" x D 6 1/2".
Newspaper, recovered from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Illinois State Journal/Springfield September 6, 1855 Vol. VIII. No. 70 The top part of the right four columns can be seen. These include the following headings: an 1855 calendar, "Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance Co.", "Business Notices", and "Miscellaneous." L 9 1/2" x W 10 3/4".
Latch assembly, believed to have been installed by Abraham Lincoln, circa 1849
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Shutter blind sill keeper for double latching shutter locks. J-shaped iron with one screw hole opposite lip end. Upper lip end forms a tooth-like protrusion in center bottom, top. The assembly has lost most of its original light brown paint. Rust spots bottom, top. Lip has speckles of light brown paint. L 1 3/8" x W 7/8" x D 3/16".
Letter, soliciting Lincoln's assistance in an application for a patent of a medicine (recovered from Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Springfiel_/A. Lincoln/I have much solicitude... Address side
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)of proper width, and depth, under ground, and about two feet above ground." This improvement reflected the Lincolns' increasing prosperity and their desire to maintain a pleasant home for themselves and their children.
Desk chair, used in legal office of Abraham Lincoln and John Logan
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat Hitchcock-style side chair, with faint stenciled gold lines. Slightly shelled seat, rolled front seat rail, rounded back with slightly flattened supports, and incised lines below flattened part. Legs rounded, slightly turned, with series of small band turnings/incised lines below front stretchers. Front legs have small bun feet. Front stretcher flat and curved...
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".
Commode, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany chamber pot/ box with hinged lid. Round piece with two finger-grip holes, removable, fits into removable rectangle with circle cut-out. This fits on top of rectangular box with side cut-outs, on casters. L 18 1/2" x H 15 1/2" x W 16".
Book, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: with sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians and the late Black Hawk War. By Benjamin Drake. Cincinnati, OH
Framed print of girl with cup of coffee
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cup of Coffee, lithograph of a dark-haired young woman, wearing a white dress with a white scarf tied around her head, and blue ribbon and bow in hair, sitting at table holding a cup of coffee. Woman holds spoon in coffee. L 14 1/2" x W 12".
Framed print of George Washington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Print of George Washington mounted on a white horse. Washington is lifting a cap over his head. Horse and background are white, ground below is green. In background is Washington's army. Washington is dressed in a blue uniform with gold epaulets. Saddle is leather color with yellow fringe. Below print is written "Gen. George Washington, Father of His Country." L 13 1/2" x W ...
Framed print of humorous scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Double Fishing. Shows sleeping man sitting on waters edge with fishing pole in water. Behind him, on a wall, are 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. One of the boys, using a fishing pole, has lifted the man's hat off his head
Needlework kit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Roll-up case for sewing supplies
Needlework Basket, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Woven wicker cane sewing basket. Looped, raised scalloped rim, loop from single piece of cane on both sides to attatch handle. Two main large horizontal ribs. Smaller cane in pairs, over and under horizontal cane weave. Poor condition.
Portable desk, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany writing box with brass plate in center of hinged top. Back folds down into flat surface on bottom. Slanted on top for writing. Hinged compartments on both sides, covered with fabric. Several compartments in front, one long with lid, one each inkwell with bottle and one square with circular well and ringed brass circular lid. L 14" x W 8 1/4" x H 4 5/16" cm (closed)....
Letter, recovered from Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter. "Wednesday Night./March 11, 1846./Friend Lincoln./Your epistle of 8... (letter of two paragraphs follows).../Yours Infinitely/ David ___ckin__on." On the address side of the folio, "A. Lincoln Esq/Springfield/Illinois." In the upper left corner is a round postmark "Lacon/Mar/18/ILL." There is no writing on the interior of the folio. H 9 1/2" x W 7 5/8".
Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Artifacts recovered from mouse nest during 1987-88 Lincoln Home restoration, including the mice. Newspaper, wood, grass, plaster materials
Political Medallions, depicting ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Brass raised ring encircling back-to-back ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Ring has hole at top for hanging, cross-hatching and raised letters & edges. Ferrotypes: unbearded Lincoln (taken Feb. 1860 - Cooper Union), Hamlin in dark suit. Obverse: "Abram Lincoln Free Soil & Free Men" Reverse: "Hannibal Hamlin Free Speech" Diam 1 1/8" x H 1/16".
Bust of William Shakespeare
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)White Parian ware bust of Shakespeare. Turned pedestal, bust from chest up, has cloak draped around himself, shirt ties into bow wtih tassels, short hair, beard, moustache. Inscribed into china "J& TB". Similar in style and construction to LIHO 137. H 7 7/8".
Kneading table from Antebellum Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Large wooden kitchen work table. Five legs. Tin-lined flour bin holds approximately 25 pounds of flour
Framed print of hunting prize (waterfowl)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hand-colored etching of dead waterfowl, a wood duck and a small green-winged teal, hanging upside-down. Plain oval frame w/raised middle rim. L 21" x W 18".
Framed print of domestic scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Large rectangular walnut frame with print of a kitchen scene of a mother sitting down and sewing a boy's pants. The boy sits covered by a towel on a table to the right
Doorknob, from an interior door of Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Brown marbleized doorknob. Diam. 2 1/8
Chest of drawers, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sheraton-style walnut bureau, with walnut burl veneer on bowed drawer fronts and drawer separators. Fluted-front side columns and four identically turned Sheraton-style legs. H 39 3/8" x W 41" x D 21".
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.
Book, "Principles of Medical Jurisprudence" (owned by Abraham Lincoln)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Principles of Medical Jurisprudence. Albany. Gould, Banks & Gould, 475 Broadway. New York: Banks Gould & Co. 144 Nassau St. 1850. L 9 1/2" x W 5 7/8" x D 2".
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".
Hall chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Spool-turned hall chair on castors. Chair arms, back, and seat upholstered. Back is straight with two beaded rods next to back. The rods are topped with spindles. Back of chair is topped with "s" turned wood ending approx. three inches down each side of chair back. Small oval between curves. H 42" x W 17" x D 17".
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".
Newspaper, New York Times from Sunday, August 1, 1926
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)New York Times from Sunday, August 1, 1926. Page 5 of Special "Rotogravure Picture Section" containing a memorial to Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln. Contains eight photographs with brief captions, in composite format. Photos of Robert Lincoln's funeral; a formal photo of Robert; with other members of President Garfield's cabinet; Robert playing golf; and Robert...
Loveseat, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Victorian Rococco style loveseat with exposed walnut trim. Horizontal oval medallion back, flared wing sides, padded arm rests. Carved crest has two upside-down rose buds flanked by open roses, leaves, and scrolls. Upholstery of rose silk brocade with raised floral pattern in same color. Backs of medallion and wings depp-button tufted with double rows of button half-way up. ...
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. 7
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by Abraham B. Byers in Beardstown, Illinois, on May 7, 1858.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 15
Image | 1859 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by H. H. Cole, probably in 1859, in Peoria, Illinois. Slightly different from Number 14. Copied from a small tintype on a contemporary campaign badge.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 18
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph believed to have been made in New York on February 27, 1860, by Mathew B. Brady, photographer following the Union armies during the war years.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 19
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made in the New York studio of Mathew B. Brady on February 27, 1860. It is very slightly different from Number 20.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 23
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Enlarged detail of a large photograph made in Springfield by A. J. Whipple of Boston, probably during the 1860 campaign. With Mr. Lincoln is one of the younger sons inside the fence at the corner of his home. The picture was taken from across the street and took in the whole house.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 28
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. This and Number 27 did not have the wide distribution of Numbers 25 and 26, and are little known except to collectors. The negative is said to have been lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.

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