Lincoln the rail splitter – Antique Wall Art
(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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Lincoln the rail splitter comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lincoln the rail splitter
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Lincoln the rail splitter" centers on the frontier labor that gave Abraham Lincoln his best-known nickname. During the 1860 Republican campaign, the "rail splitter" image presented him as a self-made man of the Midwest, and later paintings and prints kept that story alive long after his death in 1865. This color photomechanical reproduction, made around 1909 from an original by J.L.G. Ferris and copyrighted by F.A. Schneider, shows how the legend circulated in popular print.
| Created / published | c1909. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : color. |
| Genre | Photomechanical prints 1900-1910.Paintings Reproductions 1900-1910. |
| Notes | K4341 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by J.L.G. Ferris. Copyright by F.A. Schneider. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. Woodcutting. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,783 × 6,000 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216584 |
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