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

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...
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair with rush seat. Black-painted with gilded lines and stencils, top rail has a stenciled tulip, middle rail stencil has grapes. Knees have leaves, turned bulbous stretcher in front, two stretchers on sides, one in back. W 18" x D 14" x H 34".
Rocking chair, belonging to the Lincoln Family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small black horsehair-upholstered rocking chair. Very low arms from front seat rail at seat height, running back rising to little knobs at elbow height. Bottom rim on front seat rail. Front legs modified cabriolet, back bowed rockers curve down at back and are cut off at front. H 32 3/4" x W 20" x D 17".
Cushion, typical of fabrics available to Abraham Lincoln in mid-western Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular shaped cusion with khaki colored fabric on bottom and three sides. Top is blue and khaki, resembling pillow ticking. Front edge is blue cut velvet, as is cord around the top. W 17 5/8" x D 15 3/8" H 3 3/4".
Chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat Late Empire side chair. Seat is a modified shield shape. Back has two curved rails. Back legs are slightly curved, front legs cyma curve. Wide, flat, bowed stretcher at front, two rounded stretchers at each side. One round stretcher at back. Identical to LIHO 26 & 27. H 32" x W 16" x D 16".
Loveseat, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small mahogany sofa or loveseat, black horsehair upholstery, serpentine rail with carved rose and open Molding. Legs and seat rail have carvings as well. Legs have carved petals, and center has fruit-like carving (pineapple?). Thin arms, top rail ends with scrolls, sofa seat wedge-shaped, arms curve into back. L 66" x H 19" x D 20".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair, painted black with gilt stencilings, turned side rails, top rail and middle splat stenciled. Front legs and front stretcher turned, single side and back stretchers. H 35" x W 14" x D 14".
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".
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".
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".
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".
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. ...
Rocking chair, belonged to Pickarel family (friends of Abraham Lincoln)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black horsehair-upholstered rocking chair with partially upholstered arms. Back curved, ending in slight scroll. Arms curve around to front and back, up to underside of arms, with fleur de lis and curved design. Bottom edge of front seat rail has molded rim, back legs bowed slightly to rocker, front less so. H 39" x W 20" x D 19".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair with rush seat. Black with gold lines and stenciling. Top rail has stenciled tulip, middle rail has stenciled grapes, knees have stenciled leaf. Turned bulbous stretcher in front, two stretchers side, one in back. L 34" x W 18" x D 14".
Chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat Empire side chair. Seat is a modified shield shape, with raised rim, front, and sides. Back has two curved rails. Back legs are slightly curved, front legs cyma curve. Wide, flat, bowed stretcher at front, two rounded stretchers at each side. One round stretcher at back. H 32" x W 17" x D 15 1/2".
Chair, used by Abraham Lincoln at his law office at Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Stained hardwood office chair in a modified Windsor-style. Horseshoe-shaped back with eight round spokes. H 29" x W 14" x L 20".
Easy chair, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Upholstered lady's chair. Victorian Rococco style. Exposed walnut trim, medium stain. Chair back crest carved with two closed buds hanging upside-down, flanked by open roses, leaves and scrolls. Upholstered arm rests. Fabric is blue silk brocade with a raised, swirled floral pattern faded to a gold color. Back front has two horizontal rows of deep-buttoned tufting halfway up...
Rocking chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany with black upholstered horsehair rocker. Upholstered back. Seat and pillows on arm rails. Gondola-type arm, curving into circular arm that ends with a modified lotus flower turned into the circle. Head crest rail has carved flower (lotus), flanked by a large leaf on each side. Runners and legs are without decoration. 13 buttons on the upholstery. Front legs have a p...
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".
Ghana Asipim (Chief's Chair)
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Low chair made of wood with short, straight legs, four stretchers, a straight but slightly angled short back. The top rail of the back rises to a high curve
Easy chair, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Upholstered Gentlemen's balloon-backed chair. Victorian Rococco style. Exposed walnut trim, medium stain. Chair back crest carved with two closed buds hanging upside-down, flanked by open roses, leaves and scrolls. Upholstered arm rests. Fabric is blue silk brocade with a raised, swirled floral pattern faded to a gold color. Back front has two horizontal rows of deep-buttone...
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Empire-style gondola chair. Side stiles and crest rail are joined to appear as one sweeping piece, bottom edge of crest rail cut out to form scrolls. Splat is vase-shaped - no shoe where joined to seat rail. Serpentine front seat rail with protruding convex molding on bottom edge, front cabriole legs perpendicular to rail. Back-curved saber legs angle out from body. Slip sea...
Chair, used in law office of Stephen Trigg Logan and Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat side chair in Hitchcock style, but no fancy stenciling. Slightly flared seat, rolled front seat rail, top back slat rolled at end, uprights round but flattened, and incised below flattened part. Legs round, front legs have turned bands in sets of three, and further down in sets of two, tapering to very small bun feet. Round stretchers, front stretcher turned with ...
Child's chair, owned by Abraham Lincoln, used by his fourth son, Thomas (Tad)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Low small Empire-style caned seat side chair. Modified shield-shaped seat, two back splats w/outlined carved, bowed back legs. Slightly cyma curved front legs, front stretcher curved and flat, two round stretchers at each side, round stretcher at back. H 26" x W 15" x D 13 1/2".

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