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Abraham Lincoln:The martyr president - assassinated April 14th 1865
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Print showing Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.
Facsimile signature "A. Lincoln" lower right.
Library has two impressions, one with facsimile signature and one without signature.
Entered according to Act of Congress, AD. 1865, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N.Y.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, 25
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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