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Title: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg
Description: Black and white photograph of President Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
Object Type: Image
Date: November 19, 1863

Title: Lincoln-Douglas Debates Commemorative Stamp
Description: 1958 U.S. postage stamp commemorating the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Courtesy of the U.S. Government, Post Office Department.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1958

Title: Abraham Lincoln Raising a Flag at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in Honor of the Admission of Kansas to the Union on Washington's Birthday
Description: 1911 print of a photograph of President Lincoln, en route to Washington for his inauguration, raising a flag in Philadelphia to honor the new state of Kansas.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1911

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Description: Sepia albumen portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated with left arm on side table and head resting on hand.
Object Type: Image
Date: August 9, 1863

Title: Union Men and Their Sufferings in North-Western Missouri
Description: This 1864 pamphlet, entitled “Union Men and Their Sufferings in North-Western Missouri,” was written by Major J.M. Bassett, former Provost Marshal-General of the Northwest District of Missouri. Bassett provides a “glance at the history of the Rebellion in Northwest Missouri,” admitting “it may be that my hatred for rebels is too intense, my sympathy for loyal men too strong, to make every sentence I write acceptable to all.” The pamphlet, which features several black-and-white illustrations, was published by the Press of Wynkcop, Hallenbeck, and Thomas in New York, with proceeds from its sale given to The Ladies’ Aid Society of St. Joseph, Missouri.
Date: 1864

Title: Merchant's Bank of Trenton One Dollar Bill
Description: The dollar bill issued by the Merchant's Bank of Trenton, New Jersey, on November 20, 1861. The Merchant's Bank dollar bill was one of the earliest dated bills to depict President Lincoln's likeness following the President's authorization to print $250 million worth of Demand Notes in July, 1861.
Object Type: Image
Date: November 20, 1861

Title: Abraham Lincoln, Two Weeks Before the Final Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Lincoln's Unsuccessful Bid for the Senate
Description: Photographic print of Abraham Lincoln copied from an ambrotype made by Calvin Jackson, circa 1900-1911. Original ambrotype was taken two weeks before the final Lincoln-Douglas debate in Lincoln's unsuccessful bid for the Senate on October 1, 1858.
Object Type: Image

Title: Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Commemorative lithograph celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation.
Object Type: Image

Title: The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet
Description: Print of F.B. Carpenter's painting of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862.
Object Type: Image

Title: Assassination of President Lincoln
Description: Joseph Edward Baker painting of John Wilkes Booth fleeing the scene of President Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater.
Object Type: Image

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865