Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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This collection contains 19th century newspapers predeominantly from the years that Abraham Lincoln was president. The contents of the items cover the Lincoln Administration, the Civil War as it was happening, and the Lincoln assassination.

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This collection contains 20th century newspapers spanning various decades and publications. Some of the contents pertain to Lincolniana topics, but there are other current events of the times within the publications (i.e., WWI, WWII, Kennedy Assassination).

Scope and Contents This collection contains legal documents, correspondence, and other papers from Abraham Lincoln and members of the Lincoln family.It spans from his life as a lawyer to his presidency, and continues after his death in 1865 with other written items from his family. The collection is split into five series. Series 1 contains legal documents from Abraham Lincoln's time practicing law, and Series 2 are some of his correspondence from 1852-1865. Series 3 and series 4 contain materials...

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This collection contains Carte-de-Visite photographs of various famous individuals, unidentified everyday persons, places, and other types of images such as cartoons. The images are specific to American history, the Civil War, and political and foreign contemporaries of the 19th century.

Scope and Content Note This collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera from scrapbooks made by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Jesse R. Grant, Chapman Grant, and their friends and family. This collection also includes the twenty-three family scrapbooks, with items ranging from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s. Items of interest include military documents, memoranda, and correspondence from Chapman Grant’s service in the United States Army and his professional...

Scope and Content Note This collection contains the research notes of Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton, biographers of Ulysses S. Grant and historians of te Civil War era. Subjects covered include Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Presidency, West Point, Grant's World Tour. Types of material found in this collection include: hand-written and typed research notes, correspondence, including originals dating back to the 1850s and...

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This collection contains prints about various subjects pertaining to the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and 19th-20th century events.

Series 1 has all 19th century prints, and Series 2 has all 20th century prints. The items in Series 3 and 4 are three-deminsional objects, such as plaques and framed prints.