Lincoln and Hamlin campaign medal with tintype portrait – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Lincoln and Hamlin campaign medal with tintype portrait. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Lincoln and Hamlin campaign medal with tintype portrait
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Few campaign keepsakes from 1860 are as personal as this one: a small medal that pairs the Republican ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin with a tintype portrait set into the metal. Tintypes were inexpensive, quick-to-make photographs on iron plates, and tucking one into a campaign piece let supporters carry a likeness of their candidate close to hand. Lincoln's rise from Illinois lawyer to presidential nominee made images like this especially sought after that year, and objects of this kind show how ordinary citizens took part in the election.
| Original scan | 2,642 × 3,006 px · prints to 9 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-E-8 |
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