Collection:
Lincoln Collection
Object ID:
2014.070
Object Name:
Print
Description:
Oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Additional Information:
One of the most recognizable images of Lincoln, this print is taken from an 1863 daguerreotype of President Lincoln at age 54. In its original frame, it was displayed prominently above the fireplace mantle in Mary Bowditch Forbes' Lincoln cabin.
Daguerreotypy was the first commonly used photographic process in which images were produced using highly polished silver, copper and brass plates.
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 — April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In so doing he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was a self—educated lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, state legislator during the 1830s, and a one—term member of the Congress during the 1840s. He promoted rapid modernization of the economy through banks, canals, railroads and tariffs to encourage the building of factories; he opposed the war with Mexico in 1846. After a series of highly publicized debates in 1858, during which Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, he lost the U.S. Senate race to his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860. With very little support in the slave states, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederacy before he took the office. No compromise or reconciliation was found regarding slavery.
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Daguerreotypy was the first commonly used photographic process in which images were produced using highly polished silver, copper and brass plates.
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 — April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In so doing he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was a self—educated lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, state legislator during the 1830s, and a one—term member of the Congress during the 1840s. He promoted rapid modernization of the economy through banks, canals, railroads and tariffs to encourage the building of factories; he opposed the war with Mexico in 1846. After a series of highly publicized debates in 1858, during which Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, he lost the U.S. Senate race to his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860. With very little support in the slave states, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederacy before he took the office. No compromise or reconciliation was found regarding slavery.
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2014.070 Portrait of Lincoln
2014.070 Portrait of Lincoln (Cropped)
2014.070 Portrait of Lincoln
2014.070 Portrait of Lincoln (Cropped)