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"The Assassination of President Lincoln," Currier & Ives, 1865, color lithograph

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-2073

"The Negro Problem Solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be, her curse and her cure." This work encouraged freed slaves to return to and colonize their native continent for the purpose of uplifting it and its race from "social, civil and moral debasement."

Rev. Hollis Read, The Negro Problem Solved, 1864. 8.10.4

Africa as she shall be…"Christian Negro nationality…an enlightened commerce and an extensive scheme of colonialization, and Christian government, laws and institutions, all baptized in the spirit of Christianity."

Rev. Hollis Read, The Negro Problem Solved, 1864. 8.10.4

"An emotional Southern view of emancipation." A devil holds Lincoln's inkwell.

Harnett T. Kane, Gone are the Days, 1960, p. 320. Author's collection. 8.10.4

"Isaac and Rosa...Emancipated Slave Children from the Free Schools of Louisiana," Dec. 1863. Photo by Kimball.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-7357. In Oscar Handlin, The History Of the U.S., Vol. 1, 1967, p. 599. 8.10.4

A poster celebrating the end of slavery showing a Negro and white man being lifted by the American Eagle, c. 1863. R. Thayer lithograph.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-15338. In Dwight L. Dumond, Antislavery, 1961, p. 23. 8.10.4

Depiction of the former slaves of Robert W. Barnwell at Beaufort, North Carolina, carrying on with carefree jubilation over emancipation without a thought for the future. The slaves are shown as irresponsible and childish.

Harper's Weekly, c. 1863. In John A. Kouwenhoven, Adventures of America 1857-1900, 1938, Plate 81. 8.10.4

A Lincoln campaign poster, 1864, shows Andrew Johnson as a Vice Presidential candidate whose choice implied vigorous prosecution of the war.

The Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010, Washington, DC 20013-7012. In American Heritage, VII, 4, June 1956, p. 26. 8.10.4

The Democratic convention at the National Amphitheatre in Chicago, 1864. Drawing.

Copyright holder unknown. Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-6071. In American Heritage, The Presidents, XV, 2, Feb. 1964, p. 14. 8.10.4

Senator Stephen A. Douglas, c. 1853.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ61-440. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 403. 8.10.4

A Lincoln medal from his 1860 campaign.

Collection of J. Doyle Dewitt. Copyright Museum of American Political Life, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT 06117. All rights reserved. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 388. 8.10.4

Abraham Lincoln, 1860.

Collection of A. Conger Goodyear, Westbury, NY. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LOT 12559. In Beaumont Newhall, Daguerreotype in America, 1961, Plate 83. 8.10.4

Abraham Lincoln, about 1847.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC4-2439DLC. In Beaumont Newhall, Daguerreotype in America, 1961, Plate 38. 8.10.4

A campaign flag of the Republican marching club of Downers' Grove, 1860. The theme is plowboys and rural imagery.

Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010, Washington, DC 20013-7012. In American Heritage, Oct. 1972, p. 11. 8.10.4

Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis at about age 40, in side-by-side pictures showing their similarities. They came from the same region of the country.

Copyright holders unknown. In American Heritage, American Heritage Publishing Co. 8.10.4, 8.10.3

Crisis_of_the_1850s22 John C. Frémont (1813-90). "President Lincoln named Frémont commander of the western division of the army, with headquarters in St. Louis, but when Frémont independently emancipated all Missouri slaves in August 1861, in advance of federal policy, Lincoln removed him from his command, and his public life came to an abrupt end." - Mathew Brady Gallery.

Location unknown. Text: Mathew Brady Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Victor Building–Suite 4100 MRC 973, Washington, DC 20013-7012.

Crisis_of_the_1850s16 William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (1861-69); bust profile, photo.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-21907.

Crisis_of_the_1850s17 President Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, 1855-65.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpbh-00710.

Civil_War_Box_1_of_255 Abraham Lincoln; photographic portrait.

Illinois State Historical Society, 210-1/2 S 6th St, Springfield, IL 62701.

Civil_War_Box_1_of_254 President Abraham Lincoln in his coffin, 1865.

Illinois State Historical Library, 112 N Sixth St, Springfield, IL 62701-1507.

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