president lincoln

The cabinet at Washington. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Group portrait of Lincoln's cabinet including (left to right) Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln, Secreta... More

Champion. Extra. Inaugural Address, President Lincoln, [Newspaper].

Penciled notation: "Atchison, Kansas, March 5, 1861."

President Lincoln and General McClellan in McClellan's Tent

Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. Stereo by The War Photograph & Exhibition Co. No. 602. Half of stereo - LC-B811-602. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.... More

President Lincoln riding through Richmond, April 4, amid the enthusias...

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

President Lincoln and family circle. The friends of universal freedom ...

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[President Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated facing right]

G57159 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by Douglas Volk.

Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln Museum (Ford's Theatre)

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Front bedroom at the Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. In 1849, William A. Petersen, a German tailor, construc... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

[Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Jo...

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

Assassination of President Lincoln, engraving, Library of Congress

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

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

Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States of ...

Eagle with banner "Proclamation of Emancipation" and U.S. flags over portrait of Abraham Lincoln above text framed along the sides with vignettes about slavery, escape, education of African Americans, and the A... 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

President Lincoln's grand march by F. B. Helmsmüller.

Caption title. Series: Marches and quicksteps. Additional copy (scsm0083) with advts., variant cover and publisher: S.T. Gordon & son. Additional copy (scsm0084) with variant cover and publisher: Horace Waters.

[Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Jo...

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

[Abraham Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address as President ...

Photo shows President Lincoln standing in the center of the photo (below the flag and to the left), on the east front of the U.S. Capitol. Ostendorf, no. 108 Meserve, no. 90 Reference copy available in PRES FI... More

President Lincoln and his cabinet. Reading of the emancipation proclam...

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[Washington, D.C. Rocking chair used by President Lincoln in Ford's Th...

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

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Samuel Arnold, a conspirator]

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

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

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sacket, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Mor... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Our country's flag - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

An example typical of the rash of patriotic Unionist prints exalting the American flag, that appeared at the outset of the Civil War. (See also nos. 1861-19 through 1861-21.) "Our Country's Flag" is a handsom... More

Ball in Honour of President Lincoln in the Great Hall of the Patent Of...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, April 8, 1865, p. 321. Reference copy in Presidential File: Lincoln, Abraham... Inauguration. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent... More

The members of President Lincoln's cabinet.

Extracted from an undetermined publication. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Bedroom at Petersen House, where President Abraham Lincoln died in 186...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Balcony of Ford's Theatre, with view of the private box in which Abrah...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This image was taken in the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More

Tassles from Abraham Lincoln's funeral catafalque. Artifact in the mus...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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[Inauguration of President Lincoln at U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1861]

Original in the Montgomery Meigs papers, Manuscript Division. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

President Lincoln and his son Thaddeus. The last photograph the presid...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln, seated, with Tad standing; against a painted backdrop. Another negative: LC-B337-11. Ostendorf, no. 114 (variant) Meserve, no. 96 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a comple... More

Review of Federal troops on the 4th of July by President Lincoln and G...

Print shows uniformed men of the Garibaldi Guard Regiment, New York Volunteers marching past President Abraham Lincoln and General Winfield Scott during a parade of 20,000 troops in Washington, D.C. A large Ame... More

Review of Federal troops on the 4th of July by President Lincoln and G...

Print shows uniformed men of the Garibaldi Guard Regiment, New York Volunteers marching past President Abraham Lincoln and General Winfield Scott during a parade of 20,000 troops in Washington, D.C. A large Ame... More

Order of services for the meeting of the people of concord, at the hou...

Surrounded by black mourning border.

President Lincoln's grand march by F. B. Helmsmüller.

Caption title. Series: Marches and quicksteps. Additional copy (scsm0082) with advts. lacking, variant cover and publisher: Hamilton S. Gordon. Additional copy (scsm0084) with advts. lacking, variant cover and ... More

Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation / The Strobridge Lit...

Text of Emancipation Proclamation; with two U.S. flags and eagle over head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln and flanked by allegorical figures of Justice and Liberty. 6093 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyr... More

[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.

[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.

President Lincoln's Farewell Address!

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C...

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

President Lincoln dead. Assassinated in the theatre at Washington last...

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President Lincoln's first home in Illinois

Photograph of drawing shows two men standing in front of a log cabin. Additional text: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by J.L. Campbell...for the Northern District of Illinois. Written on... More

John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Dried flowers from the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Artifact in the mus...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Detail of the coat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated ...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

White House China. Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Se...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... 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.

Assassination of President A. Lincoln, April 14th 1865 at Ford's theat...

Print shows the president's box at Ford's Theater with John Wilkes Booth, on the right, shooting President Lincoln who is seated at the front of the box; on the left are Mary Todd Lincoln seated in the front, M... 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.

[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

President Lincoln and his cabinet, with Lieut. Genl. Scott

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The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington,...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0314. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Lincoln, Abraham.

[President Lincoln's horse, Old Robin] / F.W. Ingmire, photographic ar...

Photograph shows, an African American man, identified in reference sources as Rev. Henry Brown, with Abraham Lincoln's horse on the day of Lincoln's funeral.

Soldier's Home, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

Print shows Dr. King's residence, the President's villa, the military governor's house, and the soldier's home, established in 1851 and later known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home. "During the Civil War, Pr... More

Emancipation / G. G. Fish, pinx. ; J.P. Soule, photo.

Photograph shows a woman (Columbia) holding a document (the Declaration of Emancipation?) standing between two kneeling slaves. The slave to her left, a man, holds a U.S. flag; the slave to her right, a woman, ... More

Death of President Lincoln: At Washington, D.C. April 15th 1865. The N...

Print shows President Lincoln on his death bed. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1631 Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham... More

Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation / The Strobridge Lit...

Text of Emancipation Proclamation; with two U.S. flags and eagle over head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln and flanked by allegorical figures of Justice and Liberty. 6093 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyr... 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

Funeral obsequies of the late President Lincoln, in Rutland Vermont, W...

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Last moments of President Lincoln. Washington, D. C., April 15th, 1865...

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Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C...

Funeral honors to President Lincoln - the catafalque passing up Broadw...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1865 May 13, pp. 120-121.

President Lincoln at home. Reading the scriptures to his wife and son,...

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

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

Old Ford's Theatre, 10th St. N.W. Washington D.C. (where Lincoln was s...

Photo shows Ford's Theater and, to the right, the Central Free Dispensary, which opened in 1871. (Source: D. Tooley, 2007)

Fords opera house in which Abraham Lincoln was shot

Photograph showing horses and buggies in front of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Compass belonging to Abraham Lincoln, preserved at Ford's Theatre, Was...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords from information provided by ... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

[Brass knuckles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride ...

; part of title from Ford's Theater Collection website. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... 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.

[Washington, D.C. Execution of the conspirators: scaffold in use and c...

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

Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre, Apl. 14th 1865

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

President Lincoln and his cabinet, with Lieut. Genl. Scott

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Rest, noble chieftain: song on the death of President Lincoln by C. Ar...

[Washington, D.C. Hanging bodies of the conspirators; guards only in y...

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

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

Stereograph showing bird's-eye view of men on horseback and a horse-drawn carriage proceeding down Broadway, away from the viewer, in Lincoln's funeral procession. Entered according to Act of Congress in the y... More

Assasination of President Lincoln, George A. Atzerolt [i.e. Atzerodt],...

Photograph shows George A. Atzerodt, half-length portrait, seated, facing right. Photographer name from Swanson, J. Lincoln's assassins, 2001. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Exhibit loan 4136-L. Alexander Ga... More

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 (marchers are mostly in shadow). Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. & H.T Anth... More

[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.

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Samuel Arnold, a conspirator]

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

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

[Zorn & Co. portrait of President Lincoln]

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

Oppression!! Suppressing the press, Political Cartoon

An extremely crude and somewhat obscure satire on Union general Ambrose E. Burnside's controversial suspension of the Chicago "Times" because of "disloyal and incendiary statements." The anti-Lincoln paper was ... More

Funeral service of President Lincoln at Chicago, Illinois, May 1. Rem...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after photograph by Alschuler. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 503 (1865 May 20), p. 136.

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

Stereograph showing bird's-eye view of soldiers with rifles marching down Broadway in New York City during Lincoln's funeral procession. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. & H.T Antho... More

1) The President's funeral car, on a steam lighter, approaching New Yo...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 502 (1865 May 13), p. 116.