abraham lincoln

Appearance of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C., after the murder.

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[Framed photograph of Lincoln by Samuel Alschuler.]

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Abraham Lincoln to James N. Brown, Monday, October 18, 1858 (Slavery)

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 4. Addenda, 1774-1948: Abraham Lincoln ...

Anonymous. “A Citizen” to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, November 08, 186...

A prayer to be said by all good citizens on the day of fasting & praye...

On verso: 589729 Mar. 19 '40 Rare Bk Rm. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 236, Folder 40.

Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, Tuesday, August 20, 1861 (Appoi...

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

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Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. 1858-1864: S...

Trade regulations

[Abraham Lincoln on battlefield at Antietam, Maryland, cropped version...

Abraham Lincoln with, from left: Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps.; Gen. George B. McClellan; Scout Adams; Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director; an unidentified person; and standing be... More

[Presidenet Abraham Lincoln, seated next to a table]

Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln in one of a series of six pictures taken on the day before the official opening of Alexander Gardner's new gallery. Reproduced from a sepia enlargement. (Source: Ostendorf,... More

[Gardner portrait of Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Meserve no. 59. A photograph made by Alexander Gardner in Washington November 15, 1863. (From the Photographic Portraits of Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln Memorial University; The Meserve Collection, 1941.) Alexande... More

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated]

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[J. C. Buttre portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Based on a Brady photograph...

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[Brady photograph of Abraham Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Meserve no. 85. Copy of photograph. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Death and burial of Abraham Lincoln [Cut of Abraham Lincoln A nation m...

Poem of four stanzas.; 2582 E 8 12 Jy 46.; Rec. 7-18-46.; $6.00.; 5-31-46 pv; Goodspeed; 398 217; DCM 10 5-13-46 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images a... More

Abraham Lincoln, President, U.S.. American Civil War photograph by Mat...

Original Caption: Abraham Lincoln, President, U.S...U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-3655..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..... More

Abraham Lincoln. American Civil War photograph by Mathew Brady.

Original Caption: Abraham Lincoln..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-3546..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..Photographer: Bra... More

Abraham Lincoln, President, U.S.. American Civil War photograph by Mat...

Original Caption: Abraham Lincoln, President, U.S...U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-3656..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..... More

President Lincoln's funeral - burial service at Oak Ridge, Springfield...

Wood engraving after sketch by W. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 9 (1865 May 27), p. 329. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

[Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas)...

Photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo session from life was long thought to have happened on April 10, 1865, but more recent resea... More

Portrait of The champions of liberty, Print

Print shows bust portraits of George Washington, facing slightly right, and Abraham Lincoln, facing left, in ovals, with the figure of Liberty seated between them and an eagle perched above her on the Emancipat... More

The Murderers doom. Miserable death of J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin o...

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Abraham Lincoln, Pres. U.S.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Full lgth., seated, facing right; holding long sheets of paper on lap. Steel engraving after painting by Nast, copyrighted by Johnson, Fry & Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capt... More

Lincoln at Home - Public domain drawing

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[Abraham Lincoln] - Public domain portrait painting

Print showing portrait of Abraham Lincoln, with beard. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[An Interior view of the original Lincoln cabin showing the old firepl...

23552W U.S. Copyright Office. From Kimball Hall Studio, Chicago. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A. Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored peop...

Photograph of a painting. R.D. Bayley, Battle Creek, Mich. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[President Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders profile]

Detail from carte de visite (Meserve no. 63) showing Lincoln seated next to a small table. Date from: Looking for Lincoln / Philip B. Kunhardt III. NY: Knopf, 2008, p. 468. Ostendorf, no. 61-B Meserve, no. 62 ... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, oval bust portrait, facing right]

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[Abraham Lincoln, seated in chair, full portrait]

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Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print

Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.) Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the Amer... More

Carl Sandburg and the Lincoln Papers

Carl Sandburg perusing a collection of Lincoln papers; not an unusual activity for a man who spent 30 years studying Abraham Lincoln.

John Russell Pope's Competition Proposal for a Monument to Abraham Lin...

Proposal Plans for a Lincoln Memorial

FREDERICK DOUGLASS - STATESMAN, ABOLITIONIST, CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE

Frederick Douglas - with biographical paragraphs. Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston

Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class Perry Anderson, assigned to the Nimi...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Apr. 17, 2013) Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class Perry Anderson, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, uses a plasma cutter to cut a steel metal. Abraham Lincoln ... More

A black and white drawing of abraham lincoln. Abraham lincoln caricatu...

Stock photography: / A black and white drawing of abraham lincoln.

An E-2D Hawkeye assigned to the

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 18, 2019) An E-2D Hawkeye assigned to the "Bluetails" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 121 performs an arrested landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carri... More

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: L...

Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary Fi...

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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, 50...

See also HABS WI-303 (A-E) and HABS WI-360 (A-U) for additional documentation. Significance: The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) was established in 1865 as the first federal-level institut... More

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: A...

Speech on Taylor and veto

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...

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Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...

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Abraham Lincoln's return home - Victorian era public domain image

After his successful campaign for the Presidency of the United States, in October, 1860. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rees Print & Litho. Company.

James K. Moorhead to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, January 15, 1864 (Intro...

George A. S. Crooker to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, October 07, 1862 (S...

Levi Davis to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, March 02, 1849 (Legal Business...

Edward R. S. Canby to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, December 19, 1864 (Rep...

A. S. Plimpton to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 29, 1864 (Urges Lin...

The procession approaching Union Square. New York (state) 19th Century...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession on Broadway heading towards Union Square. The building on the left is the home of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt. (Sour... More

"The impending crisis"--Or caught in the act

The print's title derives from the name of Hinton Rowan Helper's 1857 pamphlet "The Impending Crisis," an influential document in antislavery literature. Here the crisis is that of New York senator William H. S... More

Zachariah Chandler to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, November 15, 1863 (Pol...

Jacob R. Freese to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 23, 1864 (Honora...

Ulysses S. Grant to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, July 20, 1863 (Introduce...

Denton Offutt to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, September 07, 1859 (with...

Smith & Lockwood to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, June 13, 1861 (Express...

Satan tempting Booth to the murder of the President

Lincoln's assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, is goaded by a hideous Mephistophelian figure to shoot the unsuspecting President, who is visible in a theater box beyond. Booth stands erect, his left arm behind hi... More

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Unidentified man, arrested on suspicion of...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. This photograph has background of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, w... More

Lincoln and his contemporaries - Public domain portrait drawing

Three scenes showing: Lincoln with Stanton, Seward, Sumner, Douglas, Seymore, and Chase, in 1858; Lincoln and six legislators, with the U.S. Capitol in background, in 1865; and Lincoln standing, with dome of th... More

Cyrus W. Field to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 27, 1861 (Introdu...

Henry Foelke to Abraham Lincoln, February 1861 (Translation of German...

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Granville Moody to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, March 27, 1865 (Appointme...

Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, January 01, 1863 (Final Emancipation Procl...

Oliver H. P. Parker to Abraham Lincoln, September 1860 (Slave Power c...

[Engine "Nashville" of the Lincoln funeral train]

Photo shows a Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad engine, with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln mounted on the front. The engine was one of several used to carry Lincoln's body from Washington, D.C., to Spri... More

Death of Lincoln / painted and engraved by A.H. Ritchie, N.V.

5662? U.S. Copyright Office. Second impression (E-size); has tear below image. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.

Thomas A. Jenckes to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, September 11, 1862 (R...

George T. Allen to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 23, 1864 (Suppo...

Emancipation of the slaves, proclamed [i.e. proclaimed] on the 22nd Se...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Waeshle, J. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of ... More

[President Abraham Lincoln's catafalque, New York City, N.Y., April 24...

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Alexander K. McClure to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, October 19, 1860 (De...

Alexander K. McClure to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, October 19, 1860 (De...

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

"Copyright 1900 by M.P. Rice, Washn., D.C." bottom right. Original photograph by Alexander Gardner. Ostendorf, no. 77 (variant) Meserve, no. 59 Similar to portrait published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complet... More

Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation / The Strobridge Lit...

Text of Emancipation Proclamation; with two U.S. flags and eagle over head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln and flanked by allegorical figures of Justice and Liberty. 6093 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyr... More

[Cort Theatre program for Drinkwater's play entitled, Abraham Lincoln....

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[Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, taken in Chica...

Original photograph: The original daguerreotype is at the Chicago Historical Society. Ostendorf, no. 6 Meserve, no. 3 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Roc... More

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler.

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Abraham Lincoln - National Parks Gallery

Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait. Copy of photo by Joseph...

Copy of a daguerreotype? "Because it was discarded in a woodshed, this faded photograph by Joseph Hill, Springfield, June 1860, escaped a blaze which destroyed all the photographs and negatives in Hill's galler... More

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, half-length portrait, ...

Photo shows presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, two days after he won his party's nomination. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 42-3.) Title devised by Library staff Previously attributed to W... More

[Print of Lincoln's cabinet based on Carpenter painting.]

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Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates, Monday, June 17, 1861 (Appointment ...

John B. Bradt to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, March 25, 1861 (Printed Rec...

[President Abraham Lincoln seated with his secretaries John Hay and Jo...

Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln seated between his private secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay at a photo session in Alexander Gardner's studio in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 1863. "On this day ... More

[Brady Photograph of Lincoln.], Mathew Brady Photograph, 1850s.

Meserve 74. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

[A. Kidder copy of the Emancipation proclamation. Copy 3.]

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[Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, with bust-length portrait ...

Print shows a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln above a letter that he is thought to have written to Mrs. Bixby on the loss of her sons in the Civil War.

Emancipation proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, freeing the sl...

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[President Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing]

Ostendorf, no. 94 Meserve, 119 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 408.

[Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing]

"He towers above the head clamp. Photograph by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C., Sunday, August 9, 1863. Visible behind Lincoln's legs are the tips of the iron stander which supports the rod holding the head... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated, right profil...

Ostendorf, no. 88 Meserve, no. 81 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 172-173.

Eversharp razor. - Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana

About 1902 I was being regularly (shaved) by an old Englishman named Brown?? About 70 years old who had the shop in the old Astor House. He had a white handled razor which always seemed to work smooth on my fac... More

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911. The Library's print is a copy of an ambrotype by T. Painter Pearson, Macomb, Illinois. This print is no... More

[President Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated in a "Brady" ...

Photograph shows President Lincoln seated in a photographer's studio. "The elegant studio chair, called a "Brady chair," was discarded from the House of Representatives when it proved too narrow for the rotund ... More

John Russell Pope's Competition Proposal for a Ziggurat Style Monument...

Proposal Plans for a Lincoln Memorial

[Abraham Lincoln impersonator at U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.]

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Thomas Lincoln, born 1779, died 1851

Photograph shows Thomas Lincoln, father of President Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. J15613 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of photograph taken ca. 1850. Copyright 1934 Sept. 1... More

Lincoln Douglas debate Du Page County Centennial, August 27th, West Ch...

Poster for a reenactment of the Lincoln-Douglas debate to be held at the DuPage County Centennial, showing bust portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.