Transparency, illuminated from the inside, for a Lincoln presidential campaign parade, 1860
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryThis three-sided transparency was originally illuminated from inside by a small oil lamp and carried in campaign parades. By the middle of the 1800s, spectacular events became the hallmark of American…
Pamphlet advertising the “True Republican” ticket for the 1860 election from Racine, Wisconsin
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyRepublican campaign materials for Abraham Lincoln and other candidates running for election.
Republican campaign banner for the presidential election of 1860
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryThe Republican Party Banner for 1860 In the 1860 presidential election, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated to run alongside Abraham Lincoln as the Republican Party's candidate for vice president.…
John Breckinridge presidential campaign badge, 1860
Scovill Manufacturing CompanyView Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryThis presidential campaign badge was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1860. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that is still…
Political cartoon about the 1860 presidential election
New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual InstructionView Full Item in New York State ArchivesProgressive Democracy, Prospect of a Smashup, 1860. This political cartoon shows a divided Democratic Party headed towards a breakup, as Northern Democrats fight Southern Democrats over the expansion…
Map of the results of the 1860 presidential election
Paullin, Charles Oscar, 1868 or 1869-1944View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryFrom "Atlas of the historical geography of the United States" of 1932.
Speech by Texas senator John Hemphill about the state of the Union, January 1861
Hemphill, John, 1803-1862View Full Item in Schreiner UniversityCorrespondence between the President’s cabinent and senators from seceded states about Fort Sumter, January and February 1861
United States.; President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)View Full Item in Schreiner UniversityPolitical cartoon about secession titled “The Dis-United States,” 1861
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryThe Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession o…
Photograph of President Lincoln delivering his first inaugural address at Washington, DC, March 4, 1861
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882View Full Image in Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana16 x 11 3/8 inch photograph printed on 19 7/8 x 16 inch card, Abraham Lincoln, bearded, standing, surrounded by a large crowd in front of the U.S. Capitol Building; title and date printed on card inco…
President Lincoln’s first inaugural adress in both original draft and its final form, given in March 1861
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865View Full Item in Cornell UniversityStern collection 137; Monaghan 2485. Foreword signed: Judd Stewart. Privately printed.
Legal briefs about the Confiscation Act, signed by President Lincoln on August 6, 1861
Waples, Rufus, 1825-1902View Full Item in University of MichiganAt head of title: United States Circuit court, Eastern district of Louisiana: Hon. E. H. Durell, district judge, presiding. Cover title.
Illustration of diplomatic negotiations between the US and Great Britain about the Trent Affair in 1861
View Full Item in Art and Picture Collection. The New York Public LibraryCorrespondence between the US and Great Britain and France about the Trent Affair, a diplomatic incident in 1861
United States. Dept. of StateView Full Item in Library of CongressJanuary 6, 1862--Read and ordered to be printed. Caption title.
Political cartoon criticizing the influence of Radical Republican publisher Horace Greeley
McLenan, John, 1827-1865, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
August 1861 letter from John Freímont commanding the seizure of Missouri bank assets, an action later overruled by Lincoln
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890View Full Image in Indiana Historical SocietyFremont directs Davis to take possession of all the money in the banks located in Kansas City, Lexington, Independence, Boonville, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Warsaw, and Osceola--all in Missouri. Davis, Jeff…
Letter from Republican Senator Charles Sumner to William Lloyd Garrison, December 22, 1861
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryCharles Sumner informs William Lloyd Garrison that he has issued a delivery to Gen. McClellan. Sumner asserts that "for some time I have been sanguine that Emancipation is at hand". In closing, Sumner…
Political cartoon about Lincoln’s views on emancipation, 1862
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, New York Illustrated NewsView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
Inkstand used by President Lincoln to draft the Emancipation Proclamation in the summer of 1862
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryIn the summer of 1862 President Abraham Lincoln sat at a desk in the War Department telegraph office and with this inkstand began to draft a presidential order to free the enslaved people held in the…
Letter from Gerritt Smith to the people of Smithfield, New York, asking them to vote Republican in the coming election for New York governor, October 1862
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryIn this typed letter addressed to "the Town of Smithfield, [New York]", Gerrit Smith acknowledges the toll the American Civil War has taken on the community and asks them to vote for the Republican pa…
The Emancipation Proclamation, enacted on January 1, 1863 by President Lincoln
National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register. 4/1/1985-View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceAnti-Emancipation Proclamation political cartoon
View Full Image in Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana9 1/4 x 5 1/8 inch photograph mounted on 10 1/2 x 6 3/8 inch card, cartoon depicting the evils of the Emancipation Proclamation by showing politicians, abolitionists, an African American soldier and t…
Decorative poster celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Lincoln, AbrahamView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyPoster with decorative border and text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.
Caricature criticizing Lincoln and Radical Republicans for the Emancipation Proclamation
View Full Image in Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IndianaCDV, caricature of Abraham Lincoln, bearded, seated in center wearing a dressing gown, apparently 'ill' with emancipation, with Horace Greeley, standing at left, holding the Emancipation Proclamation…
Speech by Rep. Clement Vallandigham criticizing abolition and demanding peace, 1863
Vallandigham, Clement L. (Clement Laird), 1820-1871View Full Item in Harvard UniversityPhotograph of Democratic congressmen including George Pendleton and Clement Vallandigham by Mathew Brady, 1863
War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (8/1/1866 - 9/18/1947)View Full Item in National Archives at College Park - Still PicturesSatirical poem about the Copperhead Democrats and their allegiances, 1863
View Full Item in University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Library c. 2 is signed by John A. McAllister and Benson J. Lossing.
Political cartoon about Copperhead Democrats and their resistance to war, February 1863
Unknown, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
Photograph of Senator Charles Sumner and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Alexander Gardner, 1863
View Full Item in The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. The New York Public LibraryIssue of the weekly newspaper the Los Angeles Star, March 14, 1863
View Full Item in University of Southern California. LibrariesThe English weekly newspaper, Los Angeles Star includes headings: [p.1]:[col.3] "Fear", "Warnings of democratic statesmen", [col.5] "A Massachusetts war", "The great west assassinated", "Abolition Mas…
Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln by photographer Thomas Le Mere, taken on April 17, 1863
Thomas Le MereView Full Item in National Portrait Gallery“All quiet along the Potomac” Mathew Brady’s cameraman, Thomas Le Mere, thought that a standing pose of the president would be popular. Lincoln wondered if it could be accomplished in one shot, and th…
Political cartoon titled “Reception of the Copperheads at Richmond,” 1863
McLenan, John, 1827-1865, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
Handwritten copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at the Gettysburg National Cemetery, November 19, 1863
View Full Item in CAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, 1863 November 19. Copy, signed.
Photograph of the crowd at Gettysburg National Cemetery for Lincoln’s address, November 19, 1863
War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (8/1/1866 - 9/18/1947)View Full Item in National Archives at College Park - Still PicturesRecord of the votes of the Copperhead Democrats in the United States Congress, 1863-1865
Union Congressional Committee (U.S.)View Full Item in University of MinnesotaSpeech by Senator Charles Sumner supporting the proposed amendment of the Constitution abolishing slavery, April 8, 1864
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874View Full Item in University of CaliforniaGeorge Pendleton’s speech in defense of fellow Democrat Alexander Long who risked expulsion from the House of Representatives, April 11, 1864
Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889View Full Item in Harvard UniversityCaption title.
Copperhead pamphlet from 1864 by C. Chauncey Burr, a magazine editor from New York City
View Full Item in Harvard UniversityPartly in verse. Title vignette. Attributed to Alexander Del Mar. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Letter from Oliver Johnson to William Lloyd Garrison about Radical Republican politics and the 1864 election
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryOliver Johnson writes to William Lloyd Garrison remarking that he is not suprised by Garrison's letter, he "felt sure that my faithful showing up of the Cleveland [Radical Republican nominating] party…
Congressional Committee report on the political record of George H. Pendleton, candidate for Vice-President, 1864
Union Congressional Committee (U.S.)View Full Item in University of MinnesotaPolitical cartoon about Democrat George McLellan’s campaign for President, 1864
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryElection of 1864. A cartoonist's view of what would happen if George B. McClellan the Democratic candidate won the election. Although he tried to disclaim it to some extent, McClellan was saddled with…
Banner for the Radical Democrats platform in the 1864 presidential election featuring John Freímont and John Cochrane
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryUnion Congressional Committee campaign literature about the Democratic Convention, 1864
Union Congressional Committee (U.S.)View Full Item in University of MinnesotaCampaign flag supporting Republican candidates Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, 1864
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryCampaign flag supporting Republican candidates Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Lincoln had good reason to doubt his chances for reelection. No president since Andrew Jackson in 1832 had won a seco…
Letter from John Freímont about the 1864 presidential election, May 29, 1864
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890View Full Item in Claremont Colleges LibraryIn this 1864 letter, Frémont discusses political matters relating to the upcoming election, ending with a reference to "Mr. Lincoln.
1864 election cartoon measuring Democratic candidate George McClellan’s military record against his successor Ulysses S. Grant
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryAn election year cartoon measuring Democratic candidate McClellan's military failures against the recent successes of his successor, Ulysses S. Grant. At right Grant, portrayed as a bulldog wearing a…
Pamphlet advertising the Democratic ticket for the 1864 election from Montgomery County, Ohio
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryDemocratic ballot for George McClellan Lincoln had good reason to doubt his chances for reelection. No president since Andrew Jackson in 1832 had won a second term. The Democratic Party nominated Gen…
Political cartoon about the political partnership of the 1864 Democratic Presidential ticket
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryThe unlikely teaming of military leader George B. McClellan with Peace Democrat (Copperhead) George Hunt Pendleton as presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 1864 election is ridiculed he…
Ohio Presidential nomination ticket for the “Union” candidates from the November 8, 1864 election
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesOhio Presidential nomination ticket from November 8, 1864 election. "Union" Ticket is for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson electors.
Anti-Lincoln political booklet published prior to the election of 1864
View Full Item in Claremont Colleges LibraryAnti-Lincoln political booklet published prior to the election of 1864. Contains frequent racist language and a racist caricature on its cover. Published by J.F. Feeks.
Cover for sheet music titled “McClellan is the Man,” 1864
Carter, F. N. (Franklin N.), approximately 1827-View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library. Music title page is part of sheet music for McClellan is the Man, composed by He…
Political cartoon titled “The Copperhead Plan for Subjugating the South,” 1864
Bellew, Frank, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
Illustration of President Lincoln’s Council of War, 1865
Peter Kramer, 1823 - 1907View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryAbraham Lincoln was Grant’s greatest supporter in official Washington, and he affirmed his backing whenever Grant’s leadership was questioned. At their first meeting, Lincoln stated simply that he wou…
Engraving of President Lincoln with major political figures of the Union, 1865
Henry S. Sadd, 19th CenturyView Full Item in National Portrait GalleryThis large engraving titled Union was published at the close of the Civil War, in about 1865. Presumably the picture celebrates the return of peace, the union of states, and the national leaders who c…
The front page of The New York Herald announcing Lincoln’s assasination on April 15, 1865
View Full Item in Washington University, St. LouisIllustration of the assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre, 1865
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryOn the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre, accompanied by his wife and their guests, Major Henry R. Rathbone and his fiancée, Clara Harris. T…
Political cartoon illustrating the challenges of Reconstruction legislation for President Johnson, 1865
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryPresident Andrew Johnson digs a hole for the train of the Radical Republican Party with a shovel marked "veto". Johnson did veto the Radical Republican Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the Senate supported…
