Hon. Abraham Lincoln: our next president"" – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Hon. Abraham Lincoln: our next president"", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hon. Abraham Lincoln: our next president""
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Few campaign images from 1860 introduce their subject as plainly as this lithograph, which calls Abraham Lincoln "our next president" before the election had taken place. Published in New York by Currier & Ives, a firm that sold inexpensive prints to a broad public, it helped voters put a face to an Illinois lawyer whose Republican nomination that spring had surprised many observers. Prints like this were often hung in homes and displayed at rallies, so the sheet offers a glimpse of how political loyalty was shown in ordinary households on the eve of the Civil War.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1860. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3124 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,169 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174702 |
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