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Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

Photographs:

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front (1846-1847)

Abraham Lincoln: Immediately prior to Senate nomination, Chicago, Illinois (1857)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front (1858)

Abraham Lincoln: Two weeks before final Lincoln-Douglas debate in Lincoln's unsuccessful bid for the Senate, Pittsfield, Illinois (1858)

Abraham Lincoln: Before delivering his Cooper Union address, New York, N.Y. (1860)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right (1860)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right (1860)

Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated (1860)

Abraham Lincoln: President-elect (1860)

Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand (1862)

Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent; another view (1862)

Abraham Lincoln (1862)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left (1863)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left (1863)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front (Nov 1863)

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left (1864)

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left (January 1864)

A photograph of the President and Thomas (Tad) made by Mathew B. Brady on February 9, 1864

Abraham Lincoln, half-length, seated, with empty hands (February 5, 1865)

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his spectacles and pencil (retouched to stand out) (February 5, 1865)

Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a book, with his son Tad (Thomas) leaning on a table (February 5, 1865)

Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (February 1865)

The latest photograph of President Lincoln - taken on the balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865

Abraham Lincoln (between 1900-1921)

 

Music:

Song, on the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Tune.- Annie Laurie. By Silas S. Steele. J. Magee Chestnut St., Phila. [1865]

The Union is my home ... By C. H. Readel. Philad'a, January 1, 1865. [n. p., n. d.]

Abraham Lincoln / [by William Cumming]. (1860)

Old Abe polka : composed for the piano for B. Leidersdorf & co., Old Abe tobaccos. (1860s)

Old Abe has gone & did it, boys : song & chorus / words by S. Fillmore Bennett ; music by J.P. Webster. (1862)

The president's emancipation march / composed for the piano by Geo. E. Fawcett. (1862)

Dey said we wouldn't fight / words by Mrs. M.A. Kidder ; Music by Mrs. Parkhurst. (1864)

A national hymn : for 4 voices with an accompaniment for organ or piano-forte / words by James Nicholson ; music by C. Everest. (1864)

The president's hymn : give thanks all ye people, as sung by the choir of Hope Church, Yonkers, N.Y. / words by Rev. Dr. Wm. A. Muhlenberg ; music by Edward S. Cummings. (1864)

The assassin's vision : ballad / words & music by J.W. Turner. (1865)

Funeral march : in memory of our lamented president Abraham Lincoln / by Charles Wels. (1865)

In memoriam : in honor of President Lincoln / by Dr. F. Haase. (1865)

Let the president sleep / written by James M. Stewart ; music by Geo. A. Brown. (1865)

Funeral march : performed at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln / music by Donizetti.

President Lincoln's funeral dirge / by Rose Rynder. (1866)

Lincoln's funeral march / [by T.M. Brown]. (1876)

The flower from Lincoln's grave : sung with great success by James Holbertson / words by Burton Lawrence ; music by James Holbertson. (1898)

 

Letters:

Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, Monday, September 27, 1841 (Personal affairs)

Abraham Lincoln to Jacob Collamer, Saturday, April 07, 1849 (Recommendation)

Abraham Lincoln to William B. Warren, et al, Saturday, April 07, 1849 (Land office)

Josiah M. Lucas to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 12, 1849 (Abraham Lincoln in Land Office)

Zenas C. Robbins to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, April 13, 1849 (Patent)

Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton, Thursday, September 27, 1849 (Lincoln's appointment as secretary of Oregon)

Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, September 25, 1858 (Promissory Note with Docket)

Abraham Lincoln, [October 1858] (Notes on Illinois Election Laws)

James A. Briggs to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, November 01, 1859 (Speaking engagements in New York)

Anonymous to Abraham Lincoln, [1860] (Suggests Lincoln should resign)

Unknown to Abraham Lincoln, [1860] (Congratulations and warns Lincoln to be aware of poisoned food)

Abraham Lincoln to James W. Sheahan, Tuesday, January 24, 1860 (Debates)

Abraham Lincoln to G. Yoke Tams, Saturday, September 22, 1860

William Oland Bourne to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, September 24, 1860 (Working men of the East)

Abes Boys to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, November 09, 1860 (Congratulations from school boys)

Samuel Haycraft to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, November 13, 1860 (Wants Lincoln to visit Kentucky)

Abraham Lincoln to John A. Andrew and Massachusetts Legislature, Thursday, February 07, 1861 (Reply to invitation)

Oliver P. Morton to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, February 07, 1861 (Telegram requesting Lincoln to arrive in Indianapolis earlier than scheduled)

Abraham Lincoln to House of Representatives, Saturday, December 14, 1861 (Reply to House resolution of December 9)

George W. Jones to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, December 16, 1861 (Late minister to Columbia seeks compensation)

Abraham Lincoln, Monday, May 19, 1862 (Proclamation revoking General David Hunter's General Order No. 11 on military emancipation of slaves)

Carl Schurz to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, May 19, 1862 (Lincoln's repudiation of Gen. Hunter's proclamation)

Abraham Lincoln to Alfred W. Ellet, Friday, November 07, 1862 (Executive Order)

Julius Stahel to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, January 01, 1863 (Telegram conveying best wishes for the new year)

Thomas H. Hicks to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, March 24, 1863 (Requests return of Naval Academy to Annapolis)

Abraham Lincoln to John Phillips, Monday, November 21, 1864 (Appreciation)

Letter from Mathew Brady to President Abraham Lincoln, asking Lincoln to sit for a photograph (1865)

Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, Thursday, January 19, 1865 (Military appointment for Robert Todd Lincoln)

 

Buildings:

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, Visitor Center, Hodgenville, Larue County, KY

Lincoln Home Site, Dubois House, 519 South Eighth Street, Springfield, Sangamon County, IL

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, Hodgenville, Larue County, KY


Papers from cases:

[Abraham Lincoln and Jesse B. Thomas], July 1837 (Bill for Specific Performance in case of George Waggoner [Wagoner] vs. William Kirkpatrick; signed by Thomas Pickett)

[May 1839] (Declaration in case of Manly F. Cannon vs. Matthew P. Kenney)

Tuesday, November 12, 1839 (Affidavit in case of John Casey vs. Thomas Bowles; signed by Thomas Bowles)

Wednesday, November 13, 1839 (Bill for divorce in case of Royal A. Clary vs. Sally J. Clary; signed by Royal A. Clary and D. H. Rutledge)

June 1840 (Bill of Exceptions in case of Lewis Ferguson vs. George England; signed by Samuel H. Treat)

November 1841 (Bill in case of Johnson Elmore vs. Jacob Bale)

Tuesday, January 18, 1842 (Affidavit in case of George U. Miles and James P. McCoy vs. Daniel Miles; signed by George U. Miles and McCoy)

June 1842 (Extract of Deed in case of Baker vs. Addington, et al.)

October 1843 (Declaration in case of James H. Bagley vs. Isaac D. Vanmeter; with Typed Note on Case (writer unknown))

November 1843 (Account in case of William White and Josiah Williams vs. George Baxter)

August 13, 1850 (Declaration and Praecipe in case of Henry McHenry vs. Hiram Penny)

 

Other:

Page from Abraham Lincoln's sum book

1846 (Poem, “My Child-hood Home I See Again)

Abraham Lincoln is the man for the crisis. [Pictorial envelope]

Abraham Lincoln to Canedy & Johnson, Thursday, January 12, 1860 (Check)

 

In Dedication to Abraham Lincoln after his death:

"Abraham Lincoln" [play] : a dramatic sensation. (1927)

Abraham Lincoln Center auditorium seating and stage (1905)

 
 
 
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