Lincoln for President

For President ABRAM LINCOLN.
For Vice President HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
Philadelphia: H.C. Howard, 1860
Woodcut or lithograph on linen
Prints & Photographs Division

Slavery in the Capitol

The Slavery Code of the District of Columbia together with Notes and Judicial Decisions Explanatory of the Same.
Washington: L. Towers, 1862
Bound manuscript, 1860
Law Library

Arguments of the Chivalry

Signed with monogram:
WH [Winslow Homer]
Arguments of the Chivalry.
Boston: John H. Bufford, 1856
Lithograph on wove paper
Prints & Photographs Division

Nursemaid and Child

Unattributed
[Nursemaid with her charge]
Sixth-plate ambrotype,
hand-tinted, ca. 1855
Prints & Photographs Division

Lincoln's Farewell

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
[Farewell Address]
Springfield, IL
Manuscript, February 11, 1861
Manuscript Division

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Scrapbook, 1858
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, 1953 (36.1)

James Polk's
Twenty-five Volume Diary

James K. Polk (1795-1849)
Presidential diary
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Chicago
Historical Society in 1910 (27.10)

Lincoln's Student
Sum Book

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln's Student Sum Book,
ca. 1824-26
Manuscript Division
Gift Herndon-Weik
Collection of Lincolniana, 1941 (29.3)

The Fugitive Slave Law

Theodor Kaufmann
Effects of the Fugitive-Slave Law
New York: Hoff & Bloede, 1850
Lithograph on woven paper
Prints and Photographs Division (33A.1)

Congressional Scales

Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888)
Congressional Scales, a True Balance
New York: N. Currier, 1850
Lithograph on woven paper
Prints and Photographs Division
Copyright deposit (34A)

Union Dissolved!

"Charleston Mercury Extra: Passed unanimously at 1:15 o'clock, p.m., December 20, 1860.
An ordinance to dissolve the Union. . . ." [Charleston, South Carolina, 1860]
Broadside
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, 1953 (43.13)

Horace Greeley and Editorial Staff of the New York Tribune

Mathew Brady Studio
[Editorial Staff of the New York Tribune]
(1811-1872)
Gold-toned, half-plate daguerreotype, ca. 1850
Prints & Photographs Division
U.S. War College transfer, 1920 (35.6)

Map of California

Robert Stockton Williamson
Map of California
May 24, 1849
Manuscript map with
pen and ink drawing
Manuscript Division (38A)

Surveying the West

Gustavus Sohon
(1825-1903)
Explorations in 1859 [showing Mullan Road in Eastern Columbia River Plateau]
Gift of the Sohon Family
Geography & Map Division (114.10a)

The Road West

Charles Preuss.
Topographical Map of the
Road from Missouri to Oregon
Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri river and ending at the mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia from the field notes and journal of Captain J.C. Fremont,
Sheet IV
Baltimore, MD, 1846
Printed map
Geography & Map Division (38B)

The Zouaves

Edward Mendel
Ellsworth's Campaign in Barrack or Dress Uniforms
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (42C.3)
Digital ID# pga-02164

Civil War Maps

Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899)
Manuscript notebooks and map,
[1862-65]
Geography & Map Division

Promoting the Union Cause

Edward S. Hall
Military Portraits, Map of the Seat of War, Uniforms, Arms, etc.
New York: H.H. Lloyd, 1861
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit, 1862 (42C.1)

A Civil War Sketch Artist

Alfred Waud (1828-1891)
[Custer's Division Retiring from
Mount Jackson in the Shenandoah
Valley, October 7, 1864]
Pencil and opaque white on tan paper, 1864
Prints & Photographs Division

A Photographic Sketchbook

Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
"The Home of a Rebel
Sharpshooter, Gettysburg"
in Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook
of the Civil War
Albumen silver print, 1863
Prints & Photographs Division

Port Royal Band Books

[Port Royal Band Books]
Manuscript part books, 1861-65
Music Division

Lincoln Fires McClellan

Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln
Holograph, November 2, 1862
Gift of Robert Todd Lincoln, 1923
Manuscript Division

The Battle of Bull Run

Leon J. Frémaux
Sketch Showing the Position of Cap. F. B. Schaeffer's Comd on July the 21st 1861
Manuscript map, August 24, 1861
Drawing, ink, and watercolor on paper
Geography & Map Division

Clara Barton

Clara Barton
Carte-de-visite album
Tintype, ca. 1862
Prints & Photographs Division
(LC-USZC4-6307)

The Wilderness Campaign

Edwin Forbes (1839-1895)
General Grant and staff on the road from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia May 7, 1864
Graphite on paper
Prints & Photographs Division

The Battle of Gettysburg

Theodore Ditterline
Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, 1863.
From Sketch of the Battle of
Gettysburg . . . .
New York: C. Alvord, 1863
Geography & Map Division
Purchase, 1902 (42A.2)

Discrimination During the Civil War

Henry Kuttner
United Order "Bné B'rith"
to Abraham Lincoln
Holograph letter with seal,
January 5, 1863
Manuscript Division
Gift of Robert Lincoln, ca. 1923 (41.3)

Lincoln's Message to Congress

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Draft of message to Congress
Holograph manuscript page,
July 4, 1861
Manuscript Division
Gift of Robert Lincoln, ca. 1923 (46B.3)

Ruins in Richmond

A. J. Russell (1830-1902)
Ruins in Richmond
Albumen silver print, April 1865
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Alma C. Haupt, 1955 (46.5)

Andersonville

Clara Barton(1812-1912)
[Dedication of Andersonville Cemetery]
Holograph journal,
August 17, 1865
Manuscript Division
Gift of Saidée and Hermann
Riccius, 1940-1954 (46B.4)

Reconstruction

Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
Union Soldiers in Andersonville
Prison/The Rebel Leader, Jeff Davis,
at Fortress Monroe.
Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1865
Wood engraving
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1865 (43.8)

The Fall of Vicksburg

Vicksburg Daily Citizen
Newspaper printed on wallpaper,
July 2, 1863
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
(46A.4)

Thanksgiving

"Editor's Table."
Godey's Lady's Book,
September 1863
Manuscript Division (48.5b)

Civil War Ironclads

Ensign D.M.N. Stouffer
Watercolors of Civil War ironclads
ca., 1864-65
Watercolor on paper
Manuscript Division (45.1a,b)

Lieutenant General Grant

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Commission for Ulysses S. Grant
(1822-1885) as lieutenant general
March 10, 1864
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division (41A)

Civil War Action

James Queen
(ca. 1820-1886)
Sketches with Co. B 8th Reg. Pa. Ma.
Under the officers of the Old Southwark
Gaurd [sic] in Chambersburg, 1862.
Watercolor on paper
Prints and Photographs Division
Gift/purchase of Marian S. Carson, 1995 (43.11)

Diary of a Confederate Woman

Betty Herndon Maury
Diary entry, June 3, 1861
Holograph manuscript diary
Manuscript Division (42.6)

Thirty-Six Star Flag

Thirty-Six Star United States Flag
Color woodcut on linen,
between 1865-1867
Prints & Photographs Division (2.12)

Antonia Willard

Antonia Ford Willard (1838-1871)
Studio portrait
by O.H. Willard,
Philadelphia
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Willard Family (42B, 42C)

"Stop Thief!"

Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
"Stop Thief!"
Published in Harper's Weekly,
October 7, 1871
Wood engraving, 1871
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Ben and Beatrice Goldstein, 1999

Women's War Relief

Hospital Slippers for the Sick and
Wounded Soldiers of the Union.
Philadelphia, 1861
Printed broadside
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (42A)

Preservation of the Union

Emancipation or Preservation of the Union?
The New York Times (New York, August 25, 1862)
Serial & Government Publications Division (235)

The Forts of Washington

E.G. Arnold, CE
Topographical Map of the Original District of Columbia and Environs: Showing the Fortifications around the City of Washington
New York: G. Woolworth Colton, 1862
Hand-colored engraving
Geography & Map Division (42A.3)

The Battle of Ft. Sumter

Currier & Ives
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, April 12 and 13, 1861
Hand-colored lithograph, ca. 1861
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, ca. 1861 (42B.1)
LC-USZC4-528

A Southern View

Adalbert J. Volck (1828-1912)
[Caricature of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation], in V. Blada's War Sketches
London [Baltimore]: 1864
Lithograph
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (5.3)

A Civil War Sailor

Unattributed
[Sailor holding a double case with portraits of Confederate soldiers]
Ambrotype, circa 1865
Prints & Photographs Division
Purchase, 1995 (42B.2)

Left-Handed Penmanship

J.S. Prendergast, private. Co. F. 24th Massachusetts Infantry, North Truro, Massachusetts
Manuscript Division
Gift of Gabriel Wells, 1931

The Fall of Savannah

Transcript of telegram from William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) about the fall of Savannah
Telegram transcript, December 22, 1864
Manuscript Division
Gift of Robert Todd Lincoln, 1923
(41.2a)

General Sherman in Savannah

William Waud (d. 1878)
Gen. Sherman Reviewing His Army in Savannah before Starting on His New Campaign,
ca. 1864-65
Pencil drawing on green paper
Published in Harper's Weekly, February 11, 1865
Prints & Photographs Division (45.4)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09919

The Battle of Chattanooga

G. H. Blakeslee
Sketch map showing fortifications, Union/Confederate picket lines, rifle pits, "Rebel camp[s]", roads, railroads, and streams
Pen and ink manuscripts map
Geography & Map Division
Gift of Mrs. George W. Volk, 1966 (43.16)
Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3964c.cw0398200r

Brother Against Brother

Henry P. Moore (1833-1911)
Slaves of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph, [May 1862]
Prints & Photographs Division (40.14)

A Letter Home

Charles Wellington Reed (1841-1926) to Mrs. Reed, June 20, 1863
Illustrated letter sent from Centerville
Manuscript Division
Gift of Grace M. Schirmer, 1928 (41A.1)

Walt Whitman and the Civil War

Alexander Gardner
Carte-de-visite portrait of Whitman, 1864
Albumen print mounted on card
Prints & Photographs Division

Artifacts of Assassination

Lincoln realia, 1865
New York Times, vol. XIV, no. 4236
(April 15, 1865)
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

"O Captain! My Captain!"

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"O Captain! My Captain!"
Proof sheet with corrections in ink, 1888
Manuscript Division

Account of Lincoln's Assassination

"Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln"
The New York Herald (New York)
April 15, 1865
Serial & Government Publications Division (49.4)

$100,000 Reward!

$100,000 Reward!
Washington, D.C.:
April 20, 1865
Broadside with attached
albumen silver prints
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Lincoln at Springfield

William Waud (d. 1878)
[Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois]
Published in Harper's Weekly,
May 27, 1865
Pencil, Chinese white, and
black ink on paper, May 3, 1865
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of J.P. Morgan, 1919 (49.2)

"Now He Belongs To The Ages"

E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865
Hartford , CT: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, 1865.
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (49.8)
Digital ID# ppmsca-07755

Lincoln's hand

Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895)
Cast of Abraham Lincoln's right hand.
Bronze
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, 1953 (51.6)

The Journey Home

Charles Magnus
The 25th of April 1865 in New York
Hand-colored wood engraving
Prints & Photographs Division (49.9)
Digital ID# ppmsca-12377

Cañon de Chelle

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
Cañon de Chelle. Walls of the
Grand Cañon about 1200 Feet
in Height, 1873
Prints & Photographs Division
Department of War, Corps of
Engineers transfer (114.9)

Battle of Little Big Horn

Lieutenant Robert Patterson Hughes
Letter to his wife with map of the
Battle of Little Big Horn,
June 30, 1876
Holograph letter and
pen and ink drawing
Manuscript Division (46C.1b)

Surveying Grand Canyon

William H. Holmes
"Foot of Toroweap Looking East"
from Capt. Clarence E. Dutton.
Monograph of the Tertiary History of
the Grand Cañon District.
Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1882
Offset lithograph
Geography & Map Division (48A.1)

Map of California

Robert Stockton Williamson (1824-1882)
Map of California,
compiled from various authorities
by Lt. R.S. Williamson,
Topographic Office, Pacific Division
Manuscript map, 1851
Geography & Map Division (48.8)

Sacramento City

Charles R. Parsons, after George B. Cooper
Sacramento City, Ca.
New York: 1850
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-2853 (114.11)

Wagon Train to the West

Daniel A. Jenks (1827-1869)
Pretty Camp-Rocky Mountains [1859]
Graphite and ink on paper
Prints & Photographs Division ( 48B.3)
LC-USZC4-9432

Portfolio of the North American Indian

Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
Tobadzishini-Navaho [sic.]
Gelatin silver print, 1904
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit (46A.5)

The Kansas and Nebraska Territories

J. H. Colton (1800-1893)
Nebraska and Kansas. New York, 1855
Hand-colored and annotated lithograph map
Geography & Map Division (49.9)

A Journey Through Mexico

Benajah Jay Antrim (b. 1821)
Sketchbook and journal [documenting Mexico and California], 1849
Watercolor and pen and ink
Manuscript Division (14D.1, 14B.4)

Landmark Map of the West

Charles Preuss (1803-1854)]
"Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44 . . ."
from John C. Frémont (1813-1890)
Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. . . . Washington: 1845
Hand-colored engraved map
Geography & Map Division (48A.9)
Digital ID# g4051s ct000909

Stephen Austin's Map of Texas

Stephen F. Austin (1793B1836)
"Mapa topográfico de la provincia de Texas,"
ca. 1822
Hand-colored manuscript map
Geography and Map Division (114.12)

Sam Houston

Unattributed.
Sam Houston
Salted paper print, 1856 or 1857
Prints & Photographs Division
Acquisition made possible by Nancy Glanville Jewell, Ed Cox, Jean and Jay Kislak, Kay and Tom Martin, John Garvey, Caroline Rose Hunt, Ruth and Ken Altshuler, Jane and Bud Smith, James Elkins, Jr., and Albert Small (31.10)

Plains Indians

Adolph F. Muhr
(d. 1913), photographer
Freckled Face (Arapahoe)
Gelatin silver prints
Published by Frank A. Rinehart, Omaha, Nebraska
Copyright Office
Copyright deposits, 1898
(48C.4)