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President Lincoln & cabinet

Description: Image of a set of portraits of United States president Abraham Lincoln and the six men of his cabinet in a Union shield frame with stars and stripes: Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior C.B. Smith, and Attorney General Edward Bates.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1861-1864
Call number: priJLC_POL_002707
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Running the “machine"

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Image of a political cartoon portraying the Lincoln administration as inept; Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden cranks out greenbacks from "Chase's Patent Greenback Mill" at left; seated at a table (clockwise from top left) are secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, president Abraham Lincoln, secretary of state William H. Seward, Navy secretary Gideon Welles, and two unidentified contractors; at left a messenger hands an envelope to Stanton, who orders a message be sent to Union general John A. Dix immediately; Lincoln laughs at center; Seward, with a bell in one hand, hands an envelope "Fort Lafayette" to a young officer or cadet; Welles ineptly works out a problem at right; two contractors ask for more greenbacks at bottom center.

priJLC_POL_002705

Scribner's : the last quarter-century in America

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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine; mostly nude male figure wearing a laurel wreath and billowing fabric head covering holds a large torch aloft; shield printed with stars and stripes at bottom right.

priJLC_ART_003065

Cheney Brothers' silks

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Image of a shield with the initials "C.B." under an image of a cow's head and an oversized length of silk thread with banners above and below advertising Cheney Brother's silks.

priJLC_FASH_001620

A. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States. Assassinated April 14th 1865

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Image of a half-length portrait of United States president Abraham Lincoln; elaborate border made up of vignettes featuring a family and covered wagon, the Proclamation of Freedom, an African American family, two allegorical figures representing "Rebellion" and "Peace," and clasped hands over "The Union Forever" banner with wheat and cotton; Rebellion is holds a sword and tattered American flag while stepping on a many-headed dragon at bottom left; Peace holds a sheaf of grain and stands next to a Union shield and bald eagle with "E Pluribus Unum" banner.

priJLC_POL_003944

United States volunteer service. The president's thanks and certificate of honorable service

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Image of a military certificate of recognition of service in the American Civil War; American bald eagle emblem with Union shield, stars, and American flags at top center; certificate includes President Abraham Lincoln's thanks and certification of honorable service for Ohio National Guard Volunteer Private James Benjamin; printed signatures of President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

priJLC_MIL_000922

Memorial certificate. United States Centennial Exhibition

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Image of a certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Main Building and Memorial Hall at top right and left corners; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant flank the seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.

priJLC_FAIR_001742

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