With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Exhibition Items
Rise to National Prominence
The New Lincoln
Kansas/Nebraska Act
- Kansas. To Those that Desire that Kansas Should be Free. Worcester, MA: November 22, 1854. Printed Ephemera Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (016)
Digital ID # al0016
- William H. Pierce. Reminiscence on the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in Peoria on October 16, 1854. Holograph manuscript, ca. 1900. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (018)
Digital ID # al0018, al0018_01–al0018_09
- G. Woolworth Colton’s Railroad Map of Illinois. New York: G. Woolworth Colton, 1861. Lithograph. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (023)
Digital ID # rr002040
- President Franklin Pierce to William C. Clark, April 9, 1854. Holograph letter. On loan from a private collector (014)
Digital ID # al0014_01, 0014_02, 0014_03
- William C. Reynolds and J.C. Jones. Reynolds’s Political Map of the United States, Designed to Exhibit the Comparative Area of the Free and Slave States and the Territory Open to Slavery or Freedom by the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, ca. 1856. Hand-colored lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (013)
Digital ID # ct000604
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Finding His Voice
- Abraham Lincoln to George Robertson, August 15, 1855. Holograph letter inserted into George Robertson’s Scrap Book on Law and Politics. Lexington, Kentucky: A.W. Elder, 1855. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (20)
Digital ID # al0020p1–al0020p2
- Horace Greeley to Joseph Medill, July 24, 1858. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (025)
Digital ID # al0025_p1–al0025_p2
- Calvin Jackson. Abraham Lincoln. October 1, 1858. Ambrotype. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (033)
Digital ID# cph-3g13901
- Mathew B. Brady. Stephen Arnold Douglas. Daguerreotype, between 1844 and 1860. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (034)
Digital ID# cph-3c10141
- Leonard W. Volk. Life mask of Stephen A. Douglas, 1857. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (035)
Digital ID # scsm/1058/003
- Stephen A. Douglas to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1858. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (026)
Digital ID # al0026p1–al0026p2
- Commonplace book created by Abraham Lincoln, 1858. Herndon-Weik Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (029)
Digital ID # al0029, al0029_01–al0029_07
- “Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln” from Chicago Press and Tribune. Scrapbook created by Abraham Lincoln, 1858. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (030)
Digital ID # 0010
- Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. . . . Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (031)
Digital ID # al0031, al0031_01–al0031_02
- Louis Kurz. Mr. Lincoln. Residence and Horse. In Springfield, Illinois, as They Appeared on his Return at the Close of the Campaign with Senator Douglas. Chicago: Kurz and Allison, July 15, 1865. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (041)
Digital ID # pga-01932
- Chair from Abraham Lincoln’s law office. On loan from the Union Pacific Railroad Historical Collection, Council Bluffs, Iowa (036)
[Image is currently not available online]
- The law office of Abraham Lincoln and William Herndon, Springfield, Illinois. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (037)
Digital ID # cph-3a14781
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The Run for President
Road to the Nomination
- Thomas J. Pickett to Abraham Lincoln, April 13, 1859. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (043)
Digital ID # al0043p1, al0043p2
- Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, in New York, in Vindication of the Policy of the Framers of the Constitution and the Principles of the Republican Party. Delivered in the Cooper Institute, Feb. 27th, 1860. Springfield, IL: Bailhache & Baker, 1860. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (047)
Digital ID # al0047_1, al0047_2–al0047_8
- Mathew B. Brady. Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union, February, 27, 1860. Carte-de-visite photograph. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (046)
Digital ID # al0046
- Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, March 4, 1860. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (048)
Digital ID # al0048p1, al0048p2
- “The Republicans in Nominating Convention in Their Wigwam at Chicago, May 1860,” from Harper’s Weekly, May 19, 1860. On loan from Kimberli Curry (051)
Digital ID # al0051
- “The ‘Wigwam’ Grand March.” Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1860. Sheet Music. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (052)
Digital ID # scsm0202/001
- David Davis to Abraham Lincoln, May 17, 1860. Telegram. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (053)
Digital ID # al0053
- Abraham Lincoln to George Ashmun, May 23, 1860. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (054)
Digital ID # vc6.6
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Front Porch Campaign
- Abraham Lincoln to Cassius M. Clay May 26, 1860. Holograph letter. On loan from a private collector (057)
Digital ID # al0057
- Wide-Awake Club of Chicago membership certificate, June 1, 1860. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (059)
Digital ID # al0059
- Abraham Lincoln to David L. Phillips, July 2, 1860. Holograph letter. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (061)
Digital ID # al0061
- Preston Butler. Abraham Lincoln. Ambrotype, August 13, 1860. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (060
Digital ID # cph-3a10370
- The National Game. Three “Outs” and One “Run.” New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (066)
Digital ID # ppmsca-09311
- Abraham Lincoln to George D. Prentice, October 29, 1860. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (067)
Digital ID# al0067p1, al0067p2–al0067p3
- Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, October 12, 1860. Holograph letter. (073)
Digital ID # al0073_01–al0073_02
- Abraham Lincoln to William Kelley, October 13, 1860. Holograph letter. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (074)
Digital ID # al0074
- For President Abram Lincoln. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. Philadelphia: H.C. Howard, 1860. Woodcut or lithograph on linen. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (065)
Digital ID # pga-01637u
- “Grand Procession of Wide-Awakes at New York on the Evening of October 3, 1860,” from Harper’s Weekly, October 13, 1860. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (058)
Digital ID # cph-3b07146
- Lincoln & Hamlin. Ward 5 . . . Republican Ticket. Boston: Wright and Potter, [1860]. Broadside. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (062)
Digital ID # al0062
- Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin campaign buttons, 1860. Tintypes with metal casings. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (063)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19428–ppmsca-19432
- Abraham Lincoln. Autobiographical notes possibly written for John L. Scripps, June 1860. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (068)
Digital ID # al0068p1–al0068p4
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Election: Celebration and Trepidation
- Salmon P. Chase to Abraham Lincoln, November 7, 1860. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (077)
Digital ID # al0077
- Obituary. Broadside, ca. 1860. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (078)
Digital ID # al0078
- Charleston Mercury Extra: Passed Unanimously at 1:15 o’clock p.m. December 20, 1860. . . .Broadside, 1860. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collection Division, Library of Congress (084)
Digital ID # us0120
- Otto Schneider. Portrait of Lincoln, between 1900 and 1920. Etching. Joseph Verner Reed Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (083)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19246
- Abraham Lincoln. Speech intended for Kentuckians, February 1861. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (082)
Digital ID # al0082p1–al0082p2
- Henry Cleenewerck. The First Flag of Independence Raised in the South, by the Citizens of Savannah, GA. November 8th, 1860. Savannah: R.H. Howell, 1860. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (099)
Digital ID # cph-3g04584
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Journey to Washington
- Leonard Wells Volk. Sculpture of Lincoln’s hand, May 21, 1860 and face, March 1860. Bronze. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (087 and 088)
Digital ID # at0051_6 [Digital image of life mask is currently unavailable online]
- Abraham Lincoln. Farewell Address to Springfield. Holograph manuscript, February 11, 1861. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (086)
Digital ID# al0086
- President-elect Lincoln Farewell Address, 1861. Broadside. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (085)
Digital ID # al0085
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The Presidency
The Sixteenth President
- Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, March 4, 1861, from the Benjamin Brown French. album. Salted paper photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (103)
Digital ID # ppmsca-07636
- William H. Seward’s notes on Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861. Holograph manuscript. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (100)
Digital ID # al0100; al0100_01–al0100_02
- Abraham Lincoln. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Printed manuscript with holographic emendations in Lincoln's hand. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (101)
Digital ID# al0101_01–al0101_7
- Holy Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1853. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102)
Digital ID # al0102_01–al0102_04
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Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Call to Arms
- Currier & Ives. Bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861. [New York]: Currier & Ives, [1861?]. Hand-colored lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (118.01)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19520
- “Hail to the Chief” from Port Royal Band Book, 1861–1865. Holograph part book. Music Division, Library of Congress (123)
Digital ID # al0123
- W.A. Williams. Sketch of Charleston Harbor By W.A. Williams, Civil Engineer. Boston: L. Prang & Co., [186-?]. Lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (119)
Digital ID # cw0385000
- Abraham Lincoln. Proclamation by the president for calling up the militia, [April 15, 1861]. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (120)
Digital ID # al0120p1–al0120p2
- Abraham Lincoln. Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861. Holograph manuscript with pasted-on emendations. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (121)
Digital ID # al0121p1a, al0121p1b, al0121p2–al0121p7
- General Irvin McDowell and Staff, Arlington House, 1862. Albumen photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (126)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19388
- F. W. Bornemann. Lithograph Sketch of the Country Occupied by the Federal & Confederate Armies on the 18th & 21st July 1861. Richmond: W. Hargrave White, [ca. 1861]. Lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (127)
Digital ID # cw0566000
- Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, August 18, 1861. Holograph letter. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (125)
Digital ID # al0125, al0125_01–al0125_02
- “How They Went to Take Canada” from Punch, August 17, 1861. Bound volume. General Collections, Library of Congress (124)
Digital ID # al0124
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Battling Incompetence
- Abraham Lincoln. General War Order No. 1, January 27, 1862. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (133)
Digital ID # al0133, al0133p1
- J. Knowles Hare. Hare’s Map of the Vicinity of Richmond, and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. . . . New York: 1862. Lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (134)
Digital ID # cw0602000
- Abraham Lincoln to General George B. McClellan, February 3, 1862. Manuscript letter [copy in the hand of Secretary of War Stanton]. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (135)
Digital ID # al0135
- Mathew. B. Brady. Gen’l. Geo. B. McClellan, 1861. Carte-de-visite photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (130)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19389
- Robert E. Lee. Special Order No. 191, September 9, 1862. Holograph manuscript. George McClellan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (143)
Digital ID # al0143, al0143p1
- Walt Whitman. Diary kept during the Civil War, 1862. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (147)
Digital ID # ww0024a
- Alexander Gardner. “President Lincoln of Battle-field of Antietam, October 3, 1862” from Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1863. Albumen print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (146)
Digital ID # ppmsca-12544
- Alexander Gardner. Antietam, Maryland, Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road, September 1862. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (145)
Digital ID # cwpb-01097
- Mary Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1862. Holograph letter. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (149)
Digital ID # al0149p1–al0149p4
- William Willis Blackford. Sketch of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862. Pen, ink, and pencil map mounted on cloth. Jedediah Hotchkiss Map Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (164)
Digital ID # cwh00123
- Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862. Holograph letter. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (150)
Digital ID # al0150a, al0150b
- Gen’l. Burnside, ca. 1861. Carte-de-visite photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (162)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19392
- Abraham Lincoln to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863. Holograph letter. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (166)
Digital ID # al0166
- Major General Joseph Hooker. Carte-de-visite photograph, between 1861 and 1865. Civil War Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (165)
Digital ID # cph-3c11519
- Edwin Forbes. President Lincoln Reviewing the Army of the Potomac on Monday, April 6, 1863. Graphite drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (168)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19523
- Abraham Lincoln to General Joseph Hooker, [April 6, 1863]. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (167)
Digital ID # al0167
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Emancipation Proclamation
- Abraham Lincoln. Initial draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, July 22, 1862. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (153)
Digital ID # al0153p1, al0153p2
- Abraham Lincoln. Emancipation Proclamation Issued by the President of the United States, Issued January 1st, 1863. Washington, D.C.: Gideon & Pearson, 1863. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (155)
Digital ID # al0155
- Salmon P. Chase. Holograph journal, open to September 22, 1862. Salmon Chase Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (154)
Digital ID # al0154
- Emancipation of the Slaves, proclamed [sic] on the 22nd September 1862, by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of North America. Philadelphia: J. Waeshle, ca. 1862. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (156)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19391
- Alfred R. Waud. An Arrival at Camp—Under the Proclamation of Emancipation, January 1863. Pencil and Chinese white drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (157)
Digital ID # ppmsca-09900
- Abraham Lincoln to Albert Hodges, April 4, 1864. Holograph letter. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (160)
Digital ID # al0160p1–al0160p3
- Adalbert J. Volck. “Caricature of Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation,” from V. Blada’s War Sketches. Baltimore, 1864. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (161)
Digital ID # al0161
- Abraham Lincoln to General John A. McClernand, January 8, 1863. Holograph letter. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (158)
Digital ID # al0158_01, al0158_02
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Success through Trial and Error
- Admiral Porter’s Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th, 1863. New York: Currier & Ives, 1863. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (175)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19399
- Vicksburg Daily Citizen, July 2, 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. Newspaper printed on wallpaper. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (176)
Digital ID # rbpe-0850100a/004d
- Theodore Ditterline. “Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, 1863” from Sketch of the Battles of Gettysburg. . . . New York: C. Alvord, 1863. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (171.01)
Digital ID # cw0331000
- George Gordon Meade, Major General, United States Army (1815–1872). Philadelphia: Henszey & Co., [ca. 1864]. Carte-de-visite photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (170)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19398
- Abraham Lincoln to George Meade, July 14, 1863. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (174)
Digital ID # al0174p1–al0174p3
- Edwin Forbes. General View of the Union Lines on the Morning of July 3, 10 AM, During the Attack of Johnston’s Div. C.S.A. Oil painting, between 1865 and 1895. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (172)
Digital ID # cph-3b52476
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Gettysburg Address
- Abraham Lincoln. “Nicolay Copy” of the Gettysburg Address, 1863. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (186)
Digital ID # al0186p1–al0186p2
- Judge David Wills to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1863. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (181)
Digital ID # al0181p1–al0181p3
- Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863. Facsimile from glass plate negative. Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (185)
Digital ID # cwpb-07639
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End in Sight
- Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses S. Grant’s commission as Lieutenant General, March 10, 1864. Holograph manuscript. Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (192)
Digital ID # al0192
- Charles Sholl. Military Topographical Map of Eastern Virginia Showing the Routes Taken by Several Army Corps & the Battles Fought in the Present Campaign of 1864 Under Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant, 1864. Lithograph. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (195)
Digital ID # cw0499000
- Abraham Lincoln to an unnamed correspondent, May 7, 1864. Holograph letter. On loan from a private collector (193)
Digital ID # al0193
- William Waud. General Sherman Reviewing his Army in Savannah before Starting on his New Campaign, [December 1864–January 1865]. Pencil drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (198)
Digital ID # ppmsca-09919
- William T. Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, December 22, 1864. Telegraph message. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (196)
Digital ID # al0196
- Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (197)
Digital ID # al0197p1–al0197p2
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Healing the Nation’s Wounds
- Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson campaign buttons, 1864. Tintypes with metal casings. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (217)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19434–ppmsca-19439
- Abraham Lincoln. Memorandum, August 23, 1864. Holograph document. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress (204)
Digital ID # al0204, al0204p1
- Currier & Ives. Abraham’s Dream!—“Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before.” New York: Currier & Ives, ca. 1864. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (205)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19400
- Henry F. Warren. The Latest Photograph of Abraham Lincoln, March 6, 1865. Albumen print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (207)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19192
- Tiffany & Co., New York. Inkwell given to Abraham Lincoln by Charles Poston, 1865. Given to the Library of Congress by Lincoln’s granddaughter, Mary Lincoln Isham, 1937. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (218)
Digital ID # scsm1300
- Anton Hohenstein. Lincoln’s Last Reception, 1865. Hand-colored lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (214)
Digital ID # ppmsca-07593
- Crowd at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865. Albumen print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (210)
Digital ID # ppmsca-02927
- Inauguration Program, March 4, 1865. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (209)
Digital ID # al0209_01–al0209_03
- Abraham Lincoln. Inaugural Address, 1865. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (206)
Digital ID # al0206_01–al0206_05
- “With Malice Toward None. . . .” Autograph book, ca. 1865. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (208)
Digital ID # al0208
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“Now He Belongs to the Ages”
- Clark Mills. Life cast of Abraham Lincoln, 1865. Bequest of Clarence L. Hay. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (216)
Digital ID # scsm1047/001
- Our American Cousin, April 14, 1865. Playbill. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (220)
Digital ID # al0220
- Alfred R. Waud. View of Box in which the President was Assassinated, 1865. Graphite drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (221)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19401
- Horatio Nelson Taft. Holograph diary, April 20, 1865. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (225)
Digital ID # al0225p1, al0225p6
- Robert King Stone. Notes for a lecture, 1865. Holograph manuscript. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (224) Digital ID # al0224_01–al0224_07
- John Wilkes Booth to Orlando Tompkins, February 9, 1865. Holograph letter. On loan from a private collector (228
Digital ID # al0228_01, al0228_02
- $100,000 Reward! Washington, D.C.: April 20, 1865. Broadside with attached albumen silver prints. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (227)
Digital ID # al0227
- Card of admission to the funeral service at the Executive Mansion, April 19, 1865. Zachariah Chandler Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (229)
Digital ID # al0229
- Samuel Montague Fassett. President Abraham Lincoln's railroad funeral car, 1865. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (231)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19404
- Reception of the Remains of President Lincoln. Order of Procession, May 1, 1865. Silk banner. On loan from the Union Pacific Railroad Historical Collection, Council Bluffs, Iowa (233)
Digital ID # al0233
- Queen Victoria to Mary Todd Lincoln, April 29, 1865. Holograph letter and envelope. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (230)
Digital ID # al0230, al0230_01, al0230_02
- William Waud. Lincoln's Coffin in the City Hall, Chicago, April 1865. Pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (235)
Digital ID # cph-3g08107
- Lincoln realia, 1865. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (223)
Digital ID # al0223
- Important. Assassination of President Lincoln. New York Herald, April 15, 1865. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (226)
Digital ID # al0226
- Alexander Gardner. Abraham Lincoln, seated holding spectacles, February 5, 1865. Carte-de-visite photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (219)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19217
- Walt Whitman. O Captain! My Captain! Proof sheet with corrections in ink, 1888. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (234)
Digital ID # ww0032a
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1865. Government and Serial Publications Division, Library of Congress (236)
Digital ID# al0236
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Vignettes
Young Lincoln
- Samuel Kirkham. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures (6th ed.). Cincinnati: N. & G. Guilford, 1828. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (001)
Digital ID # al0001, al0001_01
- Abraham Lincoln. Student sum book, ca. 1824–1826. Holograph manuscript. Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (002)
Digital ID # al0002
- The Comprehensive Bible. Philadelphia: 1847. Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (003)
Digital ID # al0003, al0003_01, al0003_02
- Abraham Lincoln. My Childhood Home I See Again . . . , ca. 1844. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (004)
Digital ID # al0004p1, al0004p2
- Robert B. Rutledge to William H. Herndon, November 1, 1866. Holograph letter. Herndon-Weik Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (006)
Digital ID # al0006, al0006_p1
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Early Career
- Attributed to Nicholas H. Shepherd. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Daguerreotypes, 1846. Prints
and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (007, 008)
Digital ID # cph-3g02439, cph-3g06189
- Bill to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia, January 16, 1849. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (010)
Digital ID # al0010p1, al0010p7
- Slave Code of the District of Columbia, 1860. Law Library, Library of Congress (011)
Digital ID # al0011p1, al0011p3
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Practicing Law
- Illinois Central Railroad v. McLean County, January 1856. Herndon-Weik Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (009)
Digital ID # al0009
- View of the east side of Springfield Square [glimpse of County Courthouse, on left behind trees], Springfield, Illinois, ca. 1868. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (038)
Digital ID # cph 3a14782
- Abraham Lincoln. Notes for a lecture on law, between 1850 and 1860. Holograph manuscript. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (039)
Digital ID # al0039p1–al0039p2
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Candidate Lincoln
- Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln, October 15, 1860. Holograph letter. On loan from Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection (069)
Digital ID # al0069_01, al0069_02, al0069_03
- Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860. Holograph letter. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (070)
Digital ID # al0070
- Roderick M. Cole. Abraham Lincoln. Albumen print, ca. 1858. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (071)
Digital ID # al0071
- C.S. German. Abraham Lincoln. Albumen print, possibly January 26, 1861. On loan from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation (072)
Digital ID # al0072
- Grace Bedell to J. E. Boos, May 8, 1918. Holograph letter. On loan from a private collector (091)
Digital ID # al0091_01, al0091_04
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Arrival in Washington
- Horatio Nelson Taft. Holograph diary, 1861–1862. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (095)
Digital ID # al0095
- James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, October 21, 1861. Holograph letter. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (098)
Digital ID # al0098
- Adalbert John Volck. Passage through Baltimore from V. Blada's War Sketches. Baltimore: 1864. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (094)
Digital ID # al0094
- Page from the Willard Hotel registry. Willard Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (097)
Digital ID # wh007a
- Thomas Nast. Gentlemen's Parlor, Reading and Sitting Room at Willard Hotel, Washington, during the Inauguration Week. Ink and opaque white drawing, February 28, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (096)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19387
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A Team of Rivals
- Edwin McMasters Stanton with his son Edwin Lamson Stanton. Half-plate daguerreotype, between 1852 and 1855. Purchase and gift from the James Madison Council and George S. Whiteley, IV. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (110)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19600
- The Cabinet at Washington, from Harpers Weekly, July 13, 1861. Wood engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (111)
Digital ID # cph-3c32557
- Memorandum on cabinet appointments, March 1, 1861. Holograph manuscript. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (113)
Digital ID # al0113
- A Job for the New Cabinet Maker from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 2, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (112)
Digital ID # cph 3a48358
- Map Showing the Comparative Area of the Northern and Southern States, East of the Rocky Mountains, from Harpers Weekly, February 23, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (115)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19483
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Life in the White House
- Tiffany & Co. Mary Todd Lincoln's jewelry. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (138)
Digital ID # scsm1298/002r
- Mathew Brady. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, 1861. Facsimile. Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (136)
Digital ID # cwpbh-01027
- Mathew B. Brady. Willie Lincoln, Third Son of President Lincoln . . . , ca. 1862. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (139)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19390
- Alexander Gardner. Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad (Thomas), February 5, 1865. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (140)
Digital ID # cph-3a05994
- John Chester Buttre after Francis B. Carpenter. Lincoln Family in 1861, ca. 1873. Mezzotint. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (108)
Digital ID # pga-00433
- Major and Knapp. Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation, at the White House, 1865. New York: Frank Leslie, ca. 1865. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (214.01)
Digital ID # ppmsca-07593
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Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
- C. W. Foster, U.S. War Department, to Frederick Douglass, August 13, 1863. Manuscript letter. Frederick Douglass Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (180)
Digital ID # al0180p1, al0180p2
- Frederick Douglass. Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, June 1, 1865. Holograph document. Frederick Douglass Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (177)
Digital ID # al0177
- Frederick Douglass, ca. 1860. Albumen print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Digital ID # cph-3a18122
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At War's End
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Memorializing Lincoln
- Henry Bacon, architect. Statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial, providing measurements of the plinth, November 1917. Graphite drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (237)
Digital ID # cph-3g04709
- United Press International. Emancipator Looks Down on Demonstrators [During the Civil Rights March on Washington], August 28, 1963. Gelatin silver print. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (238.01)
Digital ID # al0238
- Washington: The Rev. Martin Luther King Delivers his Address at the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (240.01)
Digital ID # ppmsca-19406
- View from Lincoln statue toward Washington Monument, 1952. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (239.01)
Digital ID # al0239
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