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

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".
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.
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".
Brooch, given by Mary Todd Lincoln to her niece
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round, flat-top, plain onyx brooch with gold clasp. Button-style, highly polished surface. Gold ring attached to back, not visible from top. Clasp & pin attached to ring, simple spiral clasp, pin soldered to opposite side of ring. Diam 3/4" x W 1/4".
Commemorative Coin, depicting Lincoln as railsplitter and friend
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper coin with Lincoln, railsplitter and friend. One of first coins struck during campaign. Beardless Lincoln facing right, inscription & decorative border along edge. Back: tall man wields mallet while other holds wedge into trunk of tree, log cabin in background. Obverse: "Hon. Abraham Lincoln, 1860" & engraver's name under shoulder. Reverse: "The Railsplitter of the Wes...
Fob, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)carved in shape of a long hoof. Bottom of gold with initials "GFHL" in circle, attatched to small braided hair loop. L 1 3/8".
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".
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".
Hat rack, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Gothic arch open hat rack. Pointed at top arch, and in middle mirror. Seven hooks, bottom shelf has tin umbrella tray. Two slightly turned posts, one slightly turned rail across front, four slightly turned rails connecting with back. Four modified bun feet. Umbrella stand is 29 1/2" tall. H 84" x W 26" x D 12".
Fragment of Envelope free-franked by Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Fragment of white envelope, free-franked by Abraham Lincoln. Sent to Mrs. Sprigg, Lincoln's Washington DC landlady for the room he rented while serving as a U.S. Representative from 1847-1849. Also legible is the word "Resent". Dimensions are 3 3/16" long, and 5 1/2" wide.
Shadow box from Antebellum Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Shadow box containing human hair wreath. Hair is braided and made into three branch wreath w/bows and flowers and cones. Frame has flowers applied at compass points, molded using paper ache in part. Box measure: L 19 1/2" x W 16 1/2".
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...
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.
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".
Framed print of barnyard scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Interior scene of a barn with animals (horses, pigs, goat, rabbits, ducks, cat, rooster, pigeons, goose) and man and woman. Horses stand to right of scene. Black horse is covered with a blanket that a cat is laying on. Center of picture shows the middle beams with harnesses hanging from it and the farmer's wife holding a rabbit in her apron. Farmer is in left scene reaching ...
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 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".
Cake Stand, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Glass cake plate on stand, pedestal base, turned stem, fluted column effect at top of stem. Plate has rim side, base is hollow, but stem is solid. H 8", Diam. 11".
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".
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".
Kneading table from Antebellum Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)one drawer. L 58 1/2" x H 30" x W 31".
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...
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 1
Image | 1846 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)The earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A photograph of the daguerreotype believed to have been made by N. H. Shepherd in Springfield, Illinois, in 1846. Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, who owned the original, stated to the author that he believed it was made in Washington about 1848, when his father was a Representative in Congress.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 2
Image | 1859 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype believed to have been made by Amon J. T. Joslin in Danville, Illinois, in November, 1859.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 5
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by Samuel G. Alschuler in Urbana, Illinois, in April, 1858. Miss Ida M. Tarbell in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln stated that his linen duster was exchanged for the smaller dark coat of the photographer.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 9
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the daguerreotype believed to have been made by C. S. German in Springfield in 1860. Major William, H. Lambert of Philadelphia, who owned the original, was unable to give the compiler its history, but he believed it was made in 1858.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 11
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by W. P. Pearson in Macomb, Illinois, August 28, 1858. Slightly different from Number 10. There is a similar photograph with the imprint of S. P. Tresize, a photographer of Springfield, but probably a copy of the ambrotype.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 16
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Detail of an 8"x 10" photograph of the Lincoln home in Springfield by an unknown photographer, showing Lincoln standing in the door with a crowd of neighbors, watching a procession, probably in the summer of 1860. A procession is known to have passed his house on August 8, 1860. It appears to be a demonstration favoring the admission of Kansas to the Union, as a banner state...
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 21
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the ambrotype made by William Church in Springfield on May 20, 1860, two days after Lincoln's nomination for President. This and Numbers 22 and 109 are believed to be the first portraits made of Lincoln after his nomination.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 27
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln gave to the compiler small copies of this portrait and Number 28 which had not been enlarged and touched up, as were Numbers 25 and 26 of this series. The negative was said to have been lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 30
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the 4" x 5" ambrotype made by Preston Butler in Springfield on August 13, 1860. It is likely that this portrait was made for the same purpose as was Number 29. Both are scarce items of Lincolniana.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 32
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph believed to have been made by William Seavy of Canton, Illinois, in Springfield in the summer of 1860, at the same time as Number 112.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 33
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Samuel G. Alschuler in Springfield in November, in 1860. This is believed to be the first photograph showing the beard, which is seen in all later photographs.
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. 41
Image | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady similar to Number 39, with Mrs. Lincoln mechanically added. Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln stated to the compiler that his father and mother were never photographed together.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 42
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady made in Washington before October 1, 1861. On that date the President gave it to Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, the mother of James Speed and Joshua F. Speed, all his early friends.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 79
Image | 1864 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Wenderoth & Taylor of Philadelphia, at the White House, believed to have been made in 1864.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 82
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. 85
Image | 1864 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Mathew B. Brady on February 9, 1864. Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln stated to the compiler that he considered this to be the best photograph of his father. It is the most widely known of all the portraits of Lincoln, as it appears on the five-dollar bill.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 92
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph believed to have been made by Mathew B. Brady early in 1865.

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