Abraham Lincoln:Sixteenth President of the United States – Vintage Print
![Abraham Lincoln:Sixteenth President of the United States, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1861. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d7/d71f48dd1858-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Abraham Lincoln:Sixteenth President of the United States. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Abraham Lincoln:Sixteenth President of the United States
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Currier & Ives issued this 1861 lithograph of Abraham Lincoln soon after he took office as the sixteenth president, at a moment when the country was dividing toward war. Printed in New York, the sheet is one of the many inexpensive portraits the firm sold to a public eager to see the new president's face. Its catalog entry in the Gale Research raisonné of the firm's work places it among the early political images the company produced around the 1860 election and the months that followed. Lithographs like this one were widely hung in homes and shops, so they tell us as much about how Lincoln was presented to ordinary Americans as about the man himself.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1861. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0022 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,237 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174042 |
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