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Portrait album of 19th century figures associated with Abraham Lincoln

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Description: An album with 35 cabinet card portraits of prominent figures associated with United States President Abraham Lincoln, chiefly consisting of American politicians and judges, with a focus on individuals from Illinois. Includes photographs of Myra Bradwell, Shabbona, Thomas Drummond, Henry Pinckney Walker, William K. McAllister, John Marshall Harlan, James R. Doolittle, Sidney Breese, Anthony Thornton, John M. Scott, John Mattocks, John Crerar, Lyman Trumbull, Melville Weston Fuller, Charles V. Dyer, Charles B. Lawrence, J. D. Harvey, Amos. B. Coon, Grant Goodrich, Amos Adams, Henry C. Reed, Lewis H. Davis, Clark W. Upton, Lucius M. Boltwood, Fernando Jones, C.R. Steele, L.C.P. Freer, Wm. H. Bradley, and Augustus H. Burley.
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Production date: [approximately 1875-approximately 1900]
Call number: photCL 2
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Album of Abraham Lincoln portraits, Lincoln Family, and events around his life

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A leather album with brass hinges containing cartes-de-visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln and events related to his life and death. There are images of Mary, Robert, and Thomas Lincoln. There are images of the political men of the time including Stephen Douglas, Frank P. Blair, and Thomas Eckert. There are also images of the assassin John Wilkes Booth.

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Portraits (through early 19th century)

Manuscripts

This collection contains research files of English art historian R. B. Beckett, chiefly consisting of study photographs and clippings collected from the late 1940s to early 1960s documenting the works of John Constable and other English artists including William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, J. M. W. Turner, and Richard Wilson. In addition there are also images and clippings related to English portraiture, as well as sporting and comic images. The artist research files contain study art photographs and clippings, with some occasional correspondence and notes and manuscripts by Beckett. Six artists (Blake, Constable, Gainsborough, Rowlandson, Turner, and Wilson) are distinguished as their own subseries, and their files typically contain study photographs, article clippings, some scattered manuscripts and correspondence, and exhibition catalogues. The largest of these are the John Constable files (Boxes 3-9), which includes seven boxes of study images. Other art images in the collection are arranged either in the "Artists (various)" subseries (Box 13) or in the "Portrait artists" subseries (Boxes 14-15). While some of the images are professional photographs acquired from museums, most of the images are clippings from British magazines such as The Connoisseur and Burlington. Most of the images are not annotated or only contain brief handwritten identifications typically of the artist, painting title, date, dimensions, etc. Overall there are very few manuscripts by Beckett in the collection. Exceptions consist of a sketchbook from the late 1920s containing pencil sketches of landscapes by Beckett and a few documents. The correspondence is chiefly from galleries, museums, and publishers related to Beckett's research and publications.

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Abraham Lincoln photograph album

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A photographic album with 59 images showing the places where Abraham Lincoln lived in Illinois and Kentucky. The towns and cities featured include Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Hodgensville, Kentucky; Lincoln City, Indiana; Petersburg, Illinois; Springfield, Illinois; and Chicago, Illinois. Most of the photographs show the exteriors of buildings, with a few interior views, particularly of Lincoln's house in Springfield, Illinois. A manuscript letter from compiler Albert C. Grier to Milwaukee Lincolniana collector John E. Burton, attached to the rear pastedown, explains how the album was assembled.

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Portraits of Lincoln administration members and Confederate conspirators

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Consists of 88 photographs, including snapshots and carte-de-visite photographs. Union sitters include Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, William Dennison, John Hay, Joseph Holt, William P. Fessenden, Hugh McCulloch, John G. Nicholay, William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Miss Katherine Chase Sprague, John Palmer Usher, and Gideon Welles. Confederate sitters include Alexander Stephens, Linton Stephens, and John C. Breckinridge. Additional portraits of the Lincoln kidnapping and assassination conspirators are also included: Samuel B. Arnold, Georg A. Atzerodt, John Wilkes Booth, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell (Lewis Payne, or Paine) Edward Spangler, and Mary E. Surratt. Also included are three portraits of Boston Corbett, the Union sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth. Some of these items are noted as reproduced from Frederick H. Meserve holdings.

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Photographic portrait album of politicians and Representatives of the 38th Congress

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An album with 179 cartes-de-visites portraits -- the majority by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Gallery -- of American politicians, most of whom were Representatives of the 38th United States Congress. The portraits, arranged loosely in alphabetical order, include Secretary of State William H. Seward; Clerk of the House Edward McPherson; Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden; Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher; Treasurer of the United States Francis E. Spinner (illustrated portrait) and his wife Caroline Spinner. Among the Representatives are James A. Garfield; James E. English; Elihu B. Washburne; Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax; Senator William B. Allison; Sidney Perham; James G. Blaine; John A.J. Creswell; George S. Boutwell; William Windom; Joseph W. McClurg; Fernando Wood; Reuben E. Fenton; Robert C. Schenck; Samuel S. Cox; Samuel J. Randall; and Thaddeus Stevens. Other images include a portrait of George Washington (illustrated portrait), two unidentified soldiers, an unidentified older man, and an unidentified woman.

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Portrait album of 19th century figures associated with Abraham Lincoln

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