Lincoln at 200

Galbraith Map Illinois

Contact Information

Amy Wilkinson amwilki@eiu.edu

Cindy Rich cwrich@eiu.edu

Editor Melissa Carr mcarr@eiu.edu

Websites

www.eiu.edu/~eiutps

www.siue.edu/education/tps

February 2009

Introduction—pg 1

Prints and Photographs —pg 1

Lincoln Resources—pg 2

Source Site—pg 3

Welcome to the 22nd issue of the Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter, a collaborative project of Teaching with Primary Sources Programs at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Eastern Illinois University. The celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday this month will bring a close to our newsletter focus on Abraham Lincoln. This newsletter will take a look at some Lincoln resources from the Library of Congress that we would like to spotlight. Some may be familiar to you while others are brand new. Prints and Photographs: It seems that the Library of Congress digitizes new items daily. Here are a few examples from the Prints and Photograph Division. Campaigns:

Family:

Lincoln in Art:

Portraits:

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Lincoln Resources

Abraham Lincoln Resource Guide http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/presidents/lincoln/ American Memory: Lincoln’s Speech at G e t t y s b u r g : E m i l e Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/berl:@field( N U M B E R + @ b a n d(berl+136012)) Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ alhtml/malhome.html Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, Monday, September 27, 1841 (personal affairs) h t t p : / /memory . l o c . gov / cg i - b i n / ampage?co l l Id=mal&f i leName=mal3/433/4333300/malpage.db&recNum=0 Abraham Lincoln to Elias H. Merryman, September 19, 1942 (Dueling Instructions) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/000/0003800/malpage.db&recNum=0 Abraham Lincoln to Congress, January 12, 1848 (Speech regarding Mexican War) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?co l l Id=mal&f i leName=mal1/000/0007400/malpage.db&recNum=0 Zenas C. Robbins to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, April 13, 1849 (patent) http://m e m o r y . l o c . g o v / c g i - b i n / a m p a g e ?co l l Id=mal&f i leName=mal1/002/0024500/malpage.db&recNum=0

Abraham Lincoln Poem (“My Childhood Home I See Again) http://m e m o r y . l o c . g o v / c g i - b i n / a m p a g e ?colId=mal&fileName=mal3/433/4334400/malpage.db&recNum=0 Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, (1862) (Affairs in New York) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/a m p a g e ?collId=mal&fileName=mal2/423/4238500/malpage.db&recNum=0 Abraham Lincoln to James A. McDougall, Friday, March 14, 1862 (Lincoln’s plan for compensated emancipation) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-b i n / a m p a g e ?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/150/1502100/

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Learning Page: Community Center Abraham Lincoln http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_lincoln.php Collection Connection: The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/papers/thinking.html “We’ll Sing to Abe our Songs”: Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana http://memory . l o c .gov/ lea rn/co l l ec t i ons / l i nco ln /history.html Exhibitions: Lincoln for President http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm008.html Inaugural Bible: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt040.html

Lincoln’s Student Sum Book http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm133.html Special Presentations: A s s a s s i n a t i o n o f President Abraham L i n c o l n h t t p : / /memory . l o c .gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html Lincoln I-Spy http://learning.loc.gov/learn/features/

inaug/ispy2.html Webcasts: Douglas Wilson—Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4034 Walt Whitman’s Elegy for Lincoln http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3682 Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3359 Web Guide: President’s as Poets h t t p : / / w w w . l o c . g o v / r r /program/bib/prespoetry/al.html

Image Sources

Lincoln at 200

Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln Prints and Photographs Library of Congress A. Lincoln Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Photograph of a campaign button with portrait of Abraham Lincoln and inscription "For President Abraham Lincoln"] Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Lincoln, Robert (son of Abraham Lincoln) Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Mary Todd Lincoln] / Brady. Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Tad Lincoln, standing, leaning against a chair] / Brady Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Thomas Lincoln, born 1779, died 1851 Prints and Photographs Library of Congress President Lincoln and family circle Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Willie Lincoln, third son of President Lincoln. Died February 20, 1862, at the age of 12 Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, full-length, standing, facing front, as captain in the militia, ca. 1832] Prints and Photographs

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Image Sources

Library of Congress [Lincoln standing beside a man's bed] Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Lincoln on flag-draped platform] Prints and Photographs Library of Congress The pioneer boy, or the early life of Abraham Lincoln Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Lincoln & his secretaries, Nicolay & Hay Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, taken in Chicago, Illinois Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln posed in a borrowed coat, in Urbana, Illinois Prints and Photographs Library of Congress President Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated facing right Prints and Photographs Library of Congress President elect, Abraham Lincoln Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, President Elect of the United States of America, with scenes and incidents in his life -- phot. by P. Butler, Springfield, Ill. Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln: Two weeks before final Lincoln-Douglas debate in Lincoln's unsuccessful bid for the Senate, Pittsfield, Illinois Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Letter and corrected reprint of Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" with comments by author, 9 February 1888. (Walt Whitman Collection) American Memory Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing front, January 8, 1864] / Brady, New York. Prints and Photographs