The earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln. This photograph from the Frederick H˙ Meserve Collection is a copy of a daguerreotype believed to have been made in 1846 by N˙ H˙ Shepherd. Later loaned to Ida M˙ Tarbell by Robert T˙ Lin Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: People Type: Photograph Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
A Steichen photograph of an early famous Volk life mask of Lincoln in copper (March 1860) loaned to Steichen by Frederick H˙ Meserve. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Photograph Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois (left) and Alexander Stephens of Georgia (right). They were Whig congressmen together, and Lincoln once wrote Stephens, "This is the longest letter I ever wrote in my life." One weighed 180 pounds, the other 90 pounds. Jefferso Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: People Type: Photograph Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
The Matamora Courthouse Date: 1925 Creator: Schaack, Michael J Category: Place Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
The Petersburg Courthouse Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: Place Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
The lawyer Abraham Lincoln Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: People Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Lincoln of Illinois and Stephens of Georgia were Whig Allies and personal friends. Stephens said, "I was as intimate with Mr˙ Lincoln as with any other man, except perhaps Mr˙ Toombs." The letter above is a slightly reduced facsimile from the orig Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Mrs˙ Lincoln's ink stand and music box corn-belt craftmanship. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: Equipment Type: Photograph Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
China gravy bowl, plate, pitcher, metal candlestick, majolica pitcher, given by Mrs˙ Lincoln to Usher F˙ Linder for his wife. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.