Hon. Abraham Lincoln, "Our Next President – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, "Our Next President comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, "Our Next President
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Titled "Our Next President," this print presents Abraham Lincoln as a candidate rather than a sitting officeholder, a framing that places it in the 1860 campaign season. Lincoln, a former Illinois congressman, had won the Republican nomination that May, and his supporters produced portraits like this one to introduce him to voters who knew little about him. Campaign images of the period were often cheap, mass-printed, and meant to be pinned up, carried, or traded, so they show how a candidate's face and name were spread through the country. Looking at it today, you can see how a rising politician was packaged for a national audience just months before the election.
| Original scan | 1,019 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-P-17 |
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