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Abraham Lincoln photograph album

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1905
Call number: photCL 30
Creator: Grier, Albert C (-1941)(Opens in new tab)

Photograph of Congressional Committee members outside of Abraham Lincoln's residence

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This photograph depicts members of the Congressional Committee who accompanied Abraham Lincoln's body from Washington, D.C. to his family home in Springfield, Illinois. Committee members such as Congressmen Isaac N. Arnold (back row, left) and T.W. Ferry (front row, third from right), along with other mourners, can be seen scattered throughout the front lawn and out onto the sidewalk of the Lincoln home. The house is decorated with black fabric festoon drapery; an American flag can be seen hanging in near the front porch.

photPF 26058

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Abraham Lincoln, April 1865 : [scrapbook of funeral and mourning memorabilia]

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Scrapbook of nine items related to the nationwide funeral and mourning ceremonies for President Abraham Lincoln between April and May 1865. Items include special train schedules (including one printed on silk), a railroad pass; a governmental pass to view and/or accompany the presidential remains; a mourning badge with an original tintype photograph of President Lincoln; and a letter from General Edward D. Townsend, officer in charge of escorting the remains from Washington, DC to Springfield, Ill., written to his wife "Nannie" on April 28 1865, recounting his emotions and experiences. The original compiler of the scrapbook is unknown. It has been attributed to E. D. Townsend, but the materials used to make the scrapbook (binding, type-written labels, etc.) date from the mid-20th century.

441054

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Portrait album of 19th century figures associated with Abraham Lincoln

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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.

photCL 2

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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Abraham Lincoln notebook of clippings of newspaper accounts of speeches

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Notebook contains newspaper clippings regarding Lincoln's speeches about his views on slavery and racial equality with added notes by Lincoln. Also present is an autograph draft or copy letter signed from Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, to James N. Brown, 1858 October 18. Clippings date from 1854 to approximately 1864; Lincoln's notes are in ink and date from 1858. The notebook appears to have been created by Lincoln in 1858 for the use of James N. Brown; later notes are in pencil and are attributed to Brown. Clippings are glued to pages, most are folded. (52 pages with content)

HM 2144

Abraham Lincoln notebook of clippings of newspaper accounts of speeches

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Abraham Lincoln photograph album

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