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James Shields Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady Feb 2023

James Shields Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book). The illustration is an engraved portrait of James Shields, an Irish American Democratic politician and United States Army officer,and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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Stuart's Cavalry Cutting Telegraph Wires (From The Life Stories Of Famous Americans) Feb 2023

Stuart's Cavalry Cutting Telegraph Wires (From The Life Stories Of Famous Americans)

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The print is an illustration from the book The Life Stories of Famous Americans. It depicts a scene where James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart's (major general for the Confederate States of America) cavalry cut Union telegraph wires. The image is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been removed from a bound volume. The item's verso contains an excerpt from page 106 of the book.

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Incident At The Siege Of Vicksburg (From The Life Stories Of Famous Americans) Feb 2023

Incident At The Siege Of Vicksburg (From The Life Stories Of Famous Americans)

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The print is an illustration from the book The Life Stories of Famous Americans. It depicts a scene from the Siege of Vicksburg, the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. The image is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been removed from a bound volume. The item's verso contains an excerpt from page 92 of the book.

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Lincoln And His Son "Tad", Anthony Berger Feb 2023

Lincoln And His Son "Tad", Anthony Berger

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The portrait depicts Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, reading from a book. Lincoln sits wearing glasses on his face while holding a book in his lap. Both Lincoln and Tad focus their gaze toward the book as Lincoln uses his proper right hand to turn a page. This particular object appears to have been removed from a book. Its reverse includes the title to two works, page numbers, and an image entitled Theire Sitting at Meate.

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Sovereigns, No. 4, "La Civilization Russe.", James Tissot Feb 2023

Sovereigns, No. 4, "La Civilization Russe.", James Tissot

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The chromolithograph depicts Czar Alexander II of Russia seated in religious regalia (presumably Russian Orthodox). Beneath his feet, two small people are being crushed beneath his weight. At the bottom left corner, another small figure sits and waves a flag. At the bottom right corner, a fourth small figure crawls on the ground. The lithograph is accompanied by a small article that gives documentary information about the image. It is written by Jehu Junior, an alias for Thomas Gibson Bowles the founder of Vanity Fair. At this time, the magazine was widely known for its caricatures of people of privilege.

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Theodore Winthrop Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre Feb 2023

Theodore Winthrop Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book). The illustration is an engraved portrait of Theodore Winthrop, journalist, novelist, and travel writer,and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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Edwards Pierrepont Illustration And Biography Feb 2023

Edwards Pierrepont Illustration And Biography

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book regarding President Ulysses S. Grant's presidential cabinet/administration). The illustration is an engraved portrait of Edwards Pierrpont, the attorney general during Grant's administration, and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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John Adams Dix Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady Feb 2023

John Adams Dix Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book). The illustration is an engraved portrait of John Adams Dix, Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, and Union major general during the Civil War,and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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Samuel P. Heintzelman Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady Feb 2023

Samuel P. Heintzelman Illustration And Biography, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book). The illustration is an engraved portrait of Samuel P. Heintzelman, a United States Army general, and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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Statesmen No. 66. "The Ablest Statesman In Europe.", James Tissot Feb 2023

Statesmen No. 66. "The Ablest Statesman In Europe.", James Tissot

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The chromolithograph depicts a standing Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen of Germany in his military uniform. He rests his proper left hand on a table that is covered with maps and his helmet. The lithograph is accompanied by a photocopy of a short article that originally appeared with the lithograph.

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Defense Of Fort Sumter (From The Life Stories Of Famous Americans) Feb 2023

Defense Of Fort Sumter (From The Life Stories Of Famous Americans)

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The print is an illustration from the book The Life Stories of Famous Americans. It depicts a scene from the Battle of Fort Sumter, the site of the first shots of the Civil War. The image is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been removed from a bound volume. The item's verso contains an excerpt from page 76 of the book.

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Caleb Cushing Illustration And Biography Feb 2023

Caleb Cushing Illustration And Biography

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book regarding President Ulysses S. Grant's presidential administration). The illustration is an engraved portrait of Caleb Cusing, United States Ambassador to Spain during the Grant presidential administration, and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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Abraham Lincoln. President Of The United States. Assassinated April 14, 1865., William Momberger, John Chester Buttre, Anthony Berger Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln. President Of The United States. Assassinated April 14, 1865., William Momberger, John Chester Buttre, Anthony Berger

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Engraved bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln based on a photograph from Brady's National Portrait Gallery taken by Anthony Berger on 9 February 1864. In the portrait, Lincoln is seated with his body turned slightly to his proper left. Surrounding his portrait is a decorative border designed by William Momberger that features several vignette images. This portrait was originally published in 1864, but was rereleased in 1865 to pay tribute to the martyred President.

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Thomas Alexander Scott Illustration And Biography, Atlantic Publishing And Engraving Company Feb 2023

Thomas Alexander Scott Illustration And Biography, Atlantic Publishing And Engraving Company

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The object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book). The illustration is an engraved portrait of Thomas Alexander Scott, appointed in 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of War during the American Civil War, and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.

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Standing Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, Gravure Company Of America, William F. Cogswell Feb 2023

Standing Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, Gravure Company Of America, William F. Cogswell

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The print features a standing portrait of Abraham Lincoln. In the portrait, Lincoln stands with his proper right hand resting on a chair back, while his proper left holds a document. The United States Capitol can be seen in the image's background. A facsimile of Lincoln's signature is below the portrait along with a small etching of the Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois.

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Ours The Cross, His The Crown, H. H. Lloyd Feb 2023

Ours The Cross, His The Crown, H. H. Lloyd

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Memorial print for Abraham Lincoln depicting either Liberty or Columbia weeping in front of a monument. The monument is draped with an American flag. It also features two figures: at the right a weeping gentleman; at the left a mourning soldier. At the base of the monument, a broken chain is attached.

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Death Bed Of Abraham Lincoln. Died April 15th 1865., J. L. Magee Feb 2023

Death Bed Of Abraham Lincoln. Died April 15th 1865., J. L. Magee

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Lithograph depicting Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by his family,cabinet members, and others. The image is surrounded by a black memorial drape.

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The Last Offer Of Reconciliation, Kimmel And Forster, Henry And William Voight Feb 2023

The Last Offer Of Reconciliation, Kimmel And Forster, Henry And William Voight

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Chromolithograph depicting an idealistic scene where the North and South reconcile after the Civil War. In the image, Abraham Lincoln is shown extending his hand to Jefferson Davis. Gideon Welles and Williams H. Seward are shown standing just behind Lincoln. Behind Davis stands Robert E. Lee, an enslaved person, and two unknown gentlemen. At the image's center, Liberty is seated in a small temple, which is adorned with the names of the U.S. states. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are shown adding the names of the seceded states to the temple. In the left-side background (Lincoln's side), a …

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Lincoln-Calhoun Composite Portrait, William Pate Feb 2023

Lincoln-Calhoun Composite Portrait, William Pate

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This print features a color, full-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln. In the portrait, Lincoln stands next to a table with his proper right hand at his waist while his proper left hand rests on a table. On the table are papers, a quill, and ink. The print is a composite image of Lincoln's head on John C. Calhoun's body and was created by William pate using Alexander Ritchie's 1852 mezzotint engraving of Calhoun and Anthony Berger's 1864 photograph of Lincoln.

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The Funeral Of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th 1865 Passing Union Square, Currier & Ives, Currier And Ives Feb 2023

The Funeral Of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th 1865 Passing Union Square, Currier & Ives, Currier And Ives

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Lithograph depicting Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession that took place in New York. The New York public viewing of Lincoln's body took place on April 24 and 25, 1865. In the image, soldiers are shown walking in the street on foot. Sixteen horses are shown pulling Lincoln's funeral car. Both the horses and car are adorned with black cloth.

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Honest Old Abe On The Stump Springfield 1858, Currier And Ives Feb 2023

Honest Old Abe On The Stump Springfield 1858, Currier And Ives

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The cartoon depicts back-to-back figures of Abraham Lincoln sitting on a stump as people look on from the background. The cartoon is accompanied by documentary information.

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The Lexington Of 1861, Currier And Ives Feb 2023

The Lexington Of 1861, Currier And Ives

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The color lithograph depicts a scene from the Baltimore Riot of 1861, a civil uprising between Confederate sympathizers and members of the primarily Massachusetts state militia regiment en route to the national capital at Washington.

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The Presidents Of Our Great Republic, Lange And Kronfeld Feb 2023

The Presidents Of Our Great Republic, Lange And Kronfeld

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The steel engraving depicts portraits of fifteen presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Tyler, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and James Monroe. In the center are Franklin Pierce, George Washington, and James Buchanan. The portraits appear on a background decorated with vines and stars. At the image's top, an eagle and six flags appear. A banner is draped across the engraving's bottom.

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Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States. Born February 12, 1809. Died April15, 1865., E.B. And E.C. Kellogg, Frank P. Whiting Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States. Born February 12, 1809. Died April15, 1865., E.B. And E.C. Kellogg, Frank P. Whiting

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The lithograph is a memorial print depicting a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A decorative garland adorned with a ribbon surrounds the portrait, while a dove holding an olive branch rests in a nest at the garland's top.

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A. Lincoln: Late President Of The United States, H. W. Smith, Miller And Mathews Feb 2023

A. Lincoln: Late President Of The United States, H. W. Smith, Miller And Mathews

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The engraving features a black and white portrait image of Abraham Lincoln from the chest up. He is dressed in a suit and tie.

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Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States - Born Feby. 12th 1809, Died April 15th 1865, Kimmel And Forster, Anthony Berger Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States - Born Feby. 12th 1809, Died April 15th 1865, Kimmel And Forster, Anthony Berger

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The hand-colored lithograph depicts a square-shaped, head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which was created in the likeness of a photograph by Anthony Berger. According to the item's documentary information, this is a scarce lithograph that was issued shortly after Abraham Lincoln's death.

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Image Of Rev. Charles Dresser From A Daguerreotype Feb 2023

Image Of Rev. Charles Dresser From A Daguerreotype

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A black and white engraving of an image of Reverend Charles Dresser. The engraving is mounted on a thicker piece of paper. It was originally enclosed in a frame, but was removed for preservation.

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Abraham Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 3d. 1865, J. Hollis, John Chester Buttre, B. B. Russell And Co. Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 3d. 1865, J. Hollis, John Chester Buttre, B. B. Russell And Co.

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The black and white engraving depicts President Abraham Lincoln walking through a crowd with his son, Tad, in Richmond, Virginia. The crowd is made up of white and black spectators who cheer as the President walks through the street. The engraving was enclosed in a brown wooden frame (which featured a sticker inscribed with the number 20) but was removed for preservation. The engraving has a vertical tear along its top and features light foxing in the upper two corners.

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Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, President Of The United States, Western Engraving Co. Chicago Feb 2023

Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, President Of The United States, Western Engraving Co. Chicago

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A black and white engraving of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The image has some slight foxing on front and back. It was originally enclosed in a frame with another print (inventory #6982), but was removed for preservation.

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Your Friend, Forever A. Lincoln Engraving Feb 2023

Your Friend, Forever A. Lincoln Engraving

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The engraving depicts an image of Abraham Lincoln's right-side profile, much in the same style as Anthony Berger's "The Famous Profile" photograph (Ostendorf-88), taken on 9 February 1864. The engraving was enclosed in a black wooden frame but was removed for preservation. On the frame's glass is a sticker inscribed with the number 21.

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