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[Caricature of Abraham Lincoln wearing Native American headdress, seat...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Lincoln in oval border decorat...

Addressed to Miss Sarah Sparks, Lanesboro, Susqa. Co., Penn.; postmarked Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photo... More

[Framed photographs of General Ambrose Everett Burnside and Abraham Li...

Meserve 38. The first photograph of Lincoln as President, by M. B. Brady, Washington, early 1861. Three pieces in a frame.

The great American What is it? chased by Copper-heads

An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to fre... More

The sportsman upset by the recoil of his own gun (Jo. Miller)

Lincoln is portrayed as meek and ineffectual in his prosecution of the war. In a wooded scene Lincoln, here in the character of an Irish sportsman in knee-breeches, discharges his blunderbuss at a small bird "C... More

Ford's Theatre, scene of the assassination

"765" below photo. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support... More

Washington, District of Columbia. Crowd at President Abraham Lincoln's...

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The Council of War - Public domain monumental decor print

Photograph shows statuette by John Rogers depicting Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in a grouping. Copyrighted by John Rogers in 1868.

[President Abraham Lincoln posed with Union officers and soldiers duri...

Photograph shows, left to right, Buck Juit, a soldier; Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's bodyguard (seated); Ozias M. Hatch; Marcy; Reeves; General McClernand; President Abraham Lincoln; General Fitz-John Porter; Gene... More

Loyal Americans, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval, surrounded by bust portraits of members of his cabinet, as well as four military officers. Clockwise, from top: "Gen. Scott, H. H... 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

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovere...

Box 8 contains cardboard butterfly and four notebooks containing diary entries, poetry drafts and trial lines, prose drafts, notes on Civil War hospital patients, names and addresses, and miscellaneous notes. T... More

Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-...

Salmon P. Chase Papers: General Correspondence, 1810-1898; 1848; May-A...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Financial Papers, 1822-1894; Bills and receipts; 1...

Gideon Welles Papers: Correspondence, 1820-1878; 1846, July 6-1847, Ma...

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 21st, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Washington, D.C. General John F. Hartranft and staff, responsible for...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. Left to right: Capt. R.A. Watts, Lt. Col. George W. Frederick, Lt. Col. William H.H. McCall, Lt. D.H. Geissinger, G... More

Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing front, Januar...

Lincoln visited Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C., on at least three occasions in 1864. Several portraits survive from each session. Notation on verso: "President Lincoln." Printed on verso: Brady's Nat... More

Ole shady - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

In memoriam - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Abraham's daughter - Public domain music sheet scan

[Room interior in Abraham Lincoln's home, Springfield, Illinois]

Drawing shows table and pictures on wall; sketched at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's burial in Springfield, Ill., May 3-4,1865. (Source: Mark Johnson, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2010) Title... More

"Lincoln's Funeral," Philadelphia / taken by Ridgeway (i.e. Ridgway) G...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln's casket conveyed by funeral car through the crowd on Broad Street in Philadelphia, April 22, 1865. (Source: Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B, Twenty Days: A Narrative in... More

The Gettysburg address delivered by Abraham Lincoln Nov. 19 1863 at th...

Print shows a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln above text of the Gettysburg address. 72192 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by M.T. Sheahan, Boston, Mass.

"I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest . . . where be your gi...

McClellan, in the character of Hamlet stands near an open grave holding the head of Abraham Lincoln. He soliloquizes, "I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest . . . Where be your gibes now?" The cartoon... More

Owen House - Public domain architectural drawing

Title inscribed above image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.567 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein.. American Civil War 186...

Print shows Abraham Lincoln & Mary Todd Lincoln greeting Union generals, Cabinet members, & others at a reception. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" the Library... More

Lincoln and his generals. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing President Abraham Lincoln sitting on a rock talking with his generals, from left: Admiral Porter, Admiral Farragut, Lincoln, Sherman, Thomas, Grant, and Sheridan. Entered according to Act of Cong... More

[Abraham Lincoln-Hannibel Hamlin campaign button for 1860 presidential...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Walnut's Antiques, Brewster, Mass., 2011. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in th...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap with portraits o...

Locket has tintype portraits of soldier and child and photographic print portraits of Johnson and Lincoln on separate pages.

[Washington, D.C. General John F. Hartranft reading the death warrant ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. Photograph includes woman.

[Portrait of Abraham Lincoln attached to black ribbon]

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Washington, District of Columbia. Crowd at President Abraham Lincoln's...

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The great national memorial / C. Inger.

Print showing portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln with portraits of their respective cabinet officers, two vignette scenes showing of the landi... More

[Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Photo shows Lincoln in a print made from a negative taken by Alexander Hesler, Springfield, Illinois, June 3, 1860. Lincoln said of this portrait: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever... More

The death bed of the martyr President Abraham Lincoln. Washington, Sat...

Print shows 18 people gathered around Lincoln when he died. Text below the image identifies (left to right): Genl. Halleck, Genl. Meigs, Miss Harris, Mrs. Lincoln & son, Vice Prest. Johnson, Secy. Stanton, Post... More

Washington, D.C. Ford's Theater with guards posted at entrance and cre...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

Salmon P. Chase Papers: Financial Papers, 1774-1873; 1862-1863

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Salmon P. Chase Papers: Special Indexes; Maryland, Baltimore (Police C...

Philip Henry Sheridan Papers: Field Dispatches and Telegrams, 1862-188...

Execution of the conspirators -- the drop

Stereograph showing the gallows where the conspirators are hung; many men are standing on the platform and soldiers line the top of a wall in the background. Photographic Incidents of the War from the Gallery ... More

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Lewis Payne, the conspirator who attacked ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

Abraham Lincoln - Hannibal Hamlin. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Political campaign button for 1860 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side and bust portrait of Hannibal Hamlin on the other side; metal casing with thread fastener. (PR 17 C... More

The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns....

A sentimentalized allegory "Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln" of the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War. Kimmel and Forster also produced two si... More

[Washington, D.C. John C. Howard's stable on G Street between 6th and ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing President Grant sitting at the center of a large table, with several men clustered around, signing the 15th amendment granting that the right to vote cannot be denied on basis of race or color. Fr... More

[Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvan...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

Washington, District of Columbia. President's box at Ford's Theatre

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

[Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois]

Title devised from Harper's Weekly. Inscribed below image: old. Within image: pink, white. Inscribed on bunting: The father; Sooner Than Surrender These Principles I Would Be Assassinated on this. Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Dedication of monument at Gettysburg cemetery

Photo shows the crowd gathered for the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Penn., where President Abraham Lincoln gave his now famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. When the photo is ... More

The Dubuque Daily Times, [newspaper]. April 16th, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Former residence of Pres[iden]t Lincoln, birthplace of Robt. Lincoln /...

Photograph shows men wearing suits and top hats standing on the side of the road at the end of a row of buildings at or near the site of the Globe Tavern in Springfield, Illinois. Entered according to the Act ... More

[Parlor, Abraham Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois]

Drawings shows many features of the parlor, with inset giving additional details. Relates to the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., May 3-4,1865. (Source: Mark Johnson, Illinois Historic... More

Abraham Lincoln:The martyr president - assassinated April 14th 1865

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. Ente... More

Lincoln obsequies, San Francisco, [no.] 721

Photograph shows a view from a hill of a crowd observing a tribute to Abraham Lincoln on the street below. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket, bayonet in scabbar...

Photograph case has a campaign button with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln dated 1860 attached to interior. Case: Berg, no. 3-156. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (... More

President Lincoln & cabinet / lith. of J.H. Bufford.

Print shows Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing right, at center, surrounded by bust portraits of members of his cabinet, clockwise from top, "Simon Cameron, Secy. of War", "Salmon P. Chase, Secy. of the Tre... More

[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

The assassination of Pres Lincoln 1865

Sketch of bookstore with bunting. Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed right of image: Treason has done his worst / Ey [sic] high. Inscribed left of image: 332. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.152) ... More

[Campaign print for Horace Greeley], engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Merinsky.

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

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

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Correspondence I, 1783-1888; 1862; Ma...

Salmon P. Chase Papers: General Correspondence, 1810-1898; 1863; June ...

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

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

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

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philip Henry Sheridan Papers: Military Papers, 1853-1887; Operations r...

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Correspondence I, 1783-1888; 1862; Ju...

E. B. Washburne Papers: Bound volumes, letters received; 1867; Oct. 9-...

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Philip Henry Sheridan Papers: Subject File, 1863-1891; Page, Henry, te...

Joseph Holt Papers: Financial Papers, 1822-1894; Ledgers; Chilton & Re...

Funeral service over Colonel Ellsworth at the White House East Room

Title devised from inscription on verso. Inscribed below image: 8 [officer?], 9 Dr. Pyne, 6 Lincoln, 7 Seward; 1 General Scott, 2-3 General Officers, 4 Sumner, 5 Reporters, Sentries 71st reg. Gift, J.P. Morgan,... More

Abraham Lincoln - Hannibal Hamlin. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Political campaign button for 1860 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side and bust portrait of Hannibal Hamlin on the other side; metal casing with thread fastener. (PR 17 C... More

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

Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cle...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically left margin: House where the first subscription to the "Boston Liberator" was got up. Inscribed above image: I have made the flags drooping it was raining hard ... More

Willie Lincoln, third son of President Lincoln. Died February 20, 1862...

Photo shows Willie Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, holding hat in left hand. From a photograph taken by Mathew Brady in Washington, D.C. shortly before the death of Willie Linco... More

Lincoln's funeral - Public domain scan / drawing

Four separate rough sketches. Drawing shows the public receiving vault at Springfield Oak Ridge Cemetry, Illinois, for the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln, May 4, 1865. (Source: Mark Johnson, Illinois Hist... More

[Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvan...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865.

Abraham Lincoln, Pres't U.S. / Alex. Gardner, photographer to the Army...

Photograph from the last formal portrait sitting, Feb. 5, 1865, in Washington, D.C. "One of five poses taken by Gardner ten weeks before the President was assassinated." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 219) On mount: En... 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

The Sun, [newspaper]. April 29th, 1865.

[Washington, D.C. Adjusting the ropes for hanging the conspirators]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. Photograph includes woman.

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in th...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

Defender, martyr, father - U.S. Grant, A. Lincoln, G. Washington / Hen...

Print showing bas-relief, bust portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, in a medallion. 2894A U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1870, by I.N.... More

Capitol of Illinois, no. 26 - An old photo of a building with a clock ...

Photograph shows the Illinois State House draped with black and white mourning cloth for the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. (Source: Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B, Twenty Days: A Narrative in text and pi... More

Virginia, [Partial map of Virginia.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

No scale given. Octagonal shape, surrounded by 32 portraits of military heroes of the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, three-quarter length ...

An image from this sitting was the basis for the engraved portrait on the five dollar bill used from 1914 to 2007. Photographer Anthony Berger worked at the Brady Gallery in Washington, D.C. Ostendorf, no. 92 M... More

The soldier's song--Unionism vs. Copperheadism

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by Smith & Swinney, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of Ohio. Title appears as it is wri... More

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his...

Meserve #97. Ostendorf #116. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reference prints are in the PRES FILE: Lincoln, Meserve no. 97. Acquisition sour... More

Lincoln's funeral, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

Drawing shows Ford's Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. decorated with funeral bunting for President Abraham Lincoln's funeral. Title inscribed below image. Formerly matted with Waud no. 572 (may be r... More

The martyr of liberty: in memory of President Lincoln poetry and music...

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865

Stereograph showing bird's-eye view of marchers in Lincoln's funeral procession proceeding down Broadway away from the viewer. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. & H.T Anthony & Co., ... More

The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet ...

Print shows a reenactment of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862, painted by Francis B. Carpenter at the White House in 1864. Depicted, from left to right are: Edwin M. Stanto... More

'Sixty-one and nineteen-nine - who will march to set us free? / K.

Illustration shows a large gloved hand labeled "Plutocracy" with a design showing the U.S. Capitol emerging from dark clouds to crush a group of citizens with its thumb; on the left, in the clouds of the past, ... More

Lincoln's death bed : 453 Tenth Street, Washington, D.C.

Print showing Abraham Lincoln on his death bed being mourned by cabinet members, generals, and family. Names on print: Mr. H. Utke, Miss Harris, Mr. Chase, C.J., Tad Lincoln, Sec. Welles, Sec. McCullough, Sec.... More