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

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)On June 11, 1850, Lincoln wrote to Nathaniel Hay, a Springfield contractor, describing a brick retaining wall he wanted built: "I wish to build a front fence, on a brick foundation, at my house. I therefore shall be obliged, if you will, as soon as possible, deliver me brick of suitable quality, and sufficient number to build such a foundation, fifty feet long
Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)milled lumber chunks.
Stereoscope, belonging to Abraham Lincoln's children
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wooden stereoscope for viewing stereographs (a.k.a. stereoptic cards), much like a modern "Viewmaster." Peering through the eye holes, the images would appear three-dimensional. Dimensions are 13.5", 11" wide , and 9 1/2" deep.
Jar, typically used during Abraham Lincoln's residence in Springfield, IL 1844-1861
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pottery jar with round base and slightly flared sides. Has nip in rounded flare lip. Yellowish glaze on outside, but does not cover all the way to bottom. Inside is ridged, lightly glazed. H 6 3/4" Diameter 4 3/4".
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".
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 ...
Latch Assembly, believed to be original hardware, installed by Lincoln circa 1855
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Shutter latch keeper. Metal bent to form right angle. One leg has two screw holes, other leg has rectangular hole (7/8" x 1/2") in center bottom. Thickly covered in cracked, light brown paint on top, sides, and bottom, except around screw hole leg.
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".
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".
Engraving of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Engraved print "Lincoln and His Family." Shows Tad, Mr. Lincoln, Robert & Mrs. Lincoln gathered around a table at the White House. In the background is an ornately framed portrait of Willie, marble bust of Washington, an oval firescreen and ornate fireplace. L 28" x W 22".
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".
Patent Model of device to refloat boats (reproduction)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of model boat with system of accordian bellows on sides and seven long poles to work system extending along sides of boat from base to well above deck. Model is stained in red oak stain. Bellows are grey. Boat is a long oval set on a stand.
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".
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)....
Table, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small table stand, two shelves, bracket feet. Side rails curve up to cornice-style support for top shelf. Bottom shelf solid, but narrower than top. Top shelf has two supports at inner side of rails, rectangular with rounded ends. Bottom shelf long, rectangular. L 23 1/2" x H 23" x W 15 1/2".
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".
Trim 1, from Lincoln's catafalque
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Silver thread & wire wrapped around wooden beads, with fringe bottom. Small top bead wrapped in basket weave pattern, small wrapped ring separates two beads. Larger bead wrapped in ribbed pattern. Fringe, which is attached to bottom of bead, is twisted wire in a spiral pattern. Secured on thin wooden dowel. H 7" x Diam 3 3/8".
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".
Seashell, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Abalone seashell. One half of seashell, outside has encrustations, five holes, mother-of-pearl lining inside. L 7 1/2" W 5 3/4".
Secretary, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tall secretary desk with glass front, four bookcases on top, enclosed bottom cupboard, fold-out desk tray. Bookcase has double doors wtih six panes of glass in each door, desk tray which is covered with green felt, rests on two pullout sticks with small gold knobs. Bottom cupboard has double doors with two rectangular wooden panels. Dimensions: Bookcase H. 54 1/2" L. 48"...
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 3
Image | 1858 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph of the daguerreotype made by P. Von Schneider in Chicago in July, 1858. Mr. Lincoln spoke in Chicago on July 10, 1858, to answer Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who had spoken there the day before.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 81
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. 84
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. 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. 90
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Detail of an 8" x 10" photograph made by Alexander Gardner of the second inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1865. The President is reading from his manuscript. Mr. Nicolay, one of his secretaries, is standing behind the empty chair. Vice President Johnson's face is hidden by the hat held in his left hand.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 91
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. 99
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 103
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A detail from a large photograph made by F. D. Richards in Philadelphia on February 22, 1861, at a flagraising at Independence Hall at sunrise at which the President-elect spoke briefly, leaving before the exercises were over. Mr. Lincoln may be seen directly above the single star to the left in the flag draped over the railing of the platform. Another photograph was made of...
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 54
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 60
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 15, 1863. This portrait, differing slightly from Number 59, is little known.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 65
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. 71
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph by Mathew B. Brady made in Washington February 23, 1861.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 73
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. 77
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. 25
Image | 1860 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)they are now in the Smithsonian Institution.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 37
Image | 1861 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A detail from a large photograph made by F. D. Richards in Philadelphia on February 22, 1861, at a flag-raising at Independence Hall at sunrise. In this picture Mr. Lincoln is standing directly over the third star from the left in the flag draped over the railing of the platform. This and Number 103 are believed to be the first photographs of a President-elect or a President...
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 43
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, after the battle.
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."
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.

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