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Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 26
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. The purchase of this negative and Number 25 by Mr. George B. Ayres doubtless saved them from loss in the Hesler Gallery, which was burned in the Chicago fire of 1871.
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. 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. 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. 34
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by C. S. German in Springfield, January 26, 1861. The original negative of cabinet size is in the Lincoln Collection of Dr. Herbert Wells Fay of Springfield. The portrait for the original ten-dollar greenback was engraved from this photograph.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 35
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Enlarged directly from a negative believed to be the original by C. S. German made in Springfield in February, 1861, now in the Meserve Collection. This and the next portrait are believed to be the last portraits of Lincoln before he left for Washington to be inaugurated President of the United States.
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. 47
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, when the President visited General George B. McClellan at his headquarters at Antietam, Maryland.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 48
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, at Antietam, Maryland. In this and Number 47 Mr. John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, is shown. Copied from a photograph which had been touched up.
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. 58
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. Mr. Noah Brooks in Washington in Lincoln's Time stated that Senator Edward Everett's oration to be delivered at Gettysburg was in an envelope, which may be seen on the table.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 63
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. 64
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. 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. 68
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady made in Washington on February 23, 1861, the day the President-elect arrived for the inauguration. The original glass negative, different from Number 118, is in the Meserve Collection.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 74
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady believed to have been made in 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 75
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady believed to have been made in 1863.
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. 87
Image | 1864 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Mathew B. Brady on February 9, 1864. The original glass negative is in the Meserve Collection.
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.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 97
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865. The President is holding his glasses in his right hand.
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. 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.
Letter from Sophronia McNitt to Eli Cress, April 24, 1865
Multi-Page Item | 6 pages | 1865 | McNitt Family Papers (Digitized Content)A letter to Eli Cress, a Union soldier in the 117th Illinois Infantry, from Sophronia McNitt. McNitt wrote about the end of the war and reflections on Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as well as local news, including her mother Sarah's wedding to Charles Salyer.
Letter from Patrick Moynihan to Sophronia McNitt, December 5, 1862
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1862 | McNitt Family Papers (Digitized Content)A letter to Sophronia McNitt from Patrick Moynihan, a private in the 9th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Moynihan wrote about life in camp at Corinth, some of his thoughts on local, national, and military politics, and the deaths of some friends in the Battle of Corinth.
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".
Rocking chair, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Splint weave ladder back rocker. Four back rails in "ladder." Round legs and side rails, round stretchers, two round stretchers at sides, one each low at front and back. Front and back edges of rocker rounded off, legs come down over rocker. H 35 " x W 17" x D 14".
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".
Folding game table, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany folding game table
Wardrobe, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Empire-style tall wardrobe. Bracket feet, base carved and scrolled, two large doors divided into two panels each, with narrow strip between doors. Two small mushroom-type wooden knobs. Plain cornice top, sides have one panel. L 56" x H 83 1/2" x W 20 1/2".
Sleigh bed, owned by Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany sleigh bed. Top rail of headboards rolled, incised carving at sides, panel effect for posts. Side rails paneled, with rolled plain carved top at ends. Incised carved modified bulb feet, on casters. Bed very plain, overall. L 78" x H 44 1/2" x W 60".
Print of the Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Home of Abraham Lincoln. Shows home from SW corner, back wing and small chimney visible beyond
Photographic print of the Lincoln Home made from glass plate negative
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of the Lincoln Home made from glass plate negative. Photo showing on man and two children standing at south corner of house, and one person sitting on steps. Photograph is oval mounted on rectangular paper backing. Gold rings surround picture. "D.C. Pratt Photographic Artist, Aurora, Illinois" embossed on back. Photo probably taken from a neighbor'...
Stereograph from a room in Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sepia-toned stereograph of two nearly-identical photos, mounted side-by-side on tan cardboard. Shows washstand, towel rack, and kettles near a window. A large print hangs from rope and a small print is sitting on a sconce over the washstand. Washstand is stained dark, has turned corner posts, double doors, and a marble top. Two large white bowls sit on top with glass bottle ...
Announcement, from the Logan and Lincoln law office
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Written document from the Logan and Lincoln law office, giving details of legal case. Filman Hornbuckle v. John Parkepile in Menard County, regarding a stolen black horse. Written in black ink (slightly faded), signed by Lincoln as "Logan & Lincoln, P.G." L 9 1/4" x W 7 3/8".
Piano owned by Ninian W. and Elizabeth Todd Edwards, brother-in-law and sister of Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Square grand piano. 80 keys, rectangular shape, four solid legs, chamfered on front two sides, keys in curved recess. Marks: "Enshcerr" in fancy gold script, "Philadelphia" in gold caps. Surrounded by scrolling. Music stand consists of four sticks attached to top stick, folds into piano. L 80" x H 37 1/2" x W 36".
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".
Earrings, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Metal and human hair pierced-ear loop earrings. Broad gold or brass hoop back with bands holding thick human hair braid
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".
Necklace, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Locket containing human hair. Oval locket, surrounded by two strands of twisted thick wire. Front side of locket contains four plumes of hair

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