1815-1860

Photograph

Title: [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, three-quarter length view]

White mount with red border. Seated, three-quarter length view of John Wilkes Booth wearing one glove and holding the other. Similar to images 26, 28, and 29.

GLC05136.24

1815-1860

Snell, W., fl. 1860

Photograph

Title: [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]

White mount with gold border. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth holding riding crop.

GLC05136.25

1815-1860

Charles D. Fredricks & Co., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]

White mount with thin black border. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Lighter, vignetted version of images 24, 28, and 29.

GLC05136.26

1815-1860

J.H. Bufford & Sons

Photograph

Title: [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]

White mount. Seated half-length view of John Wilkes Booth holding riding crop. Photo from engraving of image #25.

GLC05136.27

1815-1860

Photograph

Title: [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]

White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26 and 29.

GLC05136.28

1815-1860

Photograph

Title: [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]

White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26, and 28.

GLC05136.29

1815-1860

Gracy, Tracy, fl. 1815-1860

Photograph

Title: [Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]

White mount with thin black border. Seated, half length view of Edwin Booth.

GLC05136.30

1815-1860

Charles D. Fredricks & Co., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: [Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length profile view]

White mount with gray border. Seated, half length profile view of Edwin Booth.

GLC05136.31

1815-1860

Wilson & Hood

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln funeral parade, stereocard]

Yellow mount. View of Lincoln's funeral parade at the corner of Chestnut St., with a recruiting poster for Maj. Gen. Hancock hanging from the building on left side. Similar to image #38, with slightly smaller crowd.

GLC05136.37

1815-1860

Wilson & Hood

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln funeral parade, stereocard]

Yellow mount. Pencil inscription on verso: "View looking South from 6th and Chestnut St., crowd waiting to see body of Abraham Lincoln, April 1865." Similar to image #37, with slightly larger crowd.

GLC05136.38

25 April 1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: "The Funeral of President Lincoln"

Yellow mount. Anthony's Instantaneous Views, #2950. Aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession en route to city hall.

GLC05136.39

25 April 1865

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph

Title: "The Funeral of President Lincoln"

Yellow mount. Anthony's Instantaneous Views, #2950, #2951, #2958. Aerial view of soldiers in Lincoln's funeral procession.

GLC05136.40

1815-1860

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln funeral at New York City Hall, stereocard]

Yellow mount. Inscription on verso: "Funeral Dirge, City Hall, New York." Shows large assembly of people gathered outside city hall, which is hung with black bunting, in addition to large banner across front that reads "The Nation Mourns."

GLC05136.41

1815-1860

Wilson & Hood

Photograph

Title: "The Funeral Car, Broadway, New York"

Yellow mount. Shows a crowd gathered around Lincoln's hearse as it processes down the street.

GLC05136.42

1815-1860

Photograph

Title: [close-up view of Lincoln's hearse, stereocard]

Yellow mount. Stamp on verso: "New York, Lincoln's Catafalque No 353." Close-up view of Lincoln's hearse and casket in front of windows hung with mourning wreaths. Soldiers stand at attention along near side of hearse.

GLC05136.43

1815-1860

Townsend, A.C., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: [aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession, stereocard]

Yellow mount. Aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession.

GLC05136.44

22 May 1865

Glover, Ridgeway, fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: "Home of Lincoln"

View of front and side of Lincoln's Springfield home decorated in funerary bunting.

GLC05136.45

1815-1860

Townsend, A.C., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln's casket, stereocard]

Yellow mount. Ink inscription on recto: "A. Lincoln's Casket." View of Lincoln's casket drapes with flowers and greenery.

GLC05136.46

1815-1860

Duboce, Marcel, fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: "Stereoscopic view of Lincoln's Tomb, Negative No.1, Oak Ridge Cemetery"

Yellow mount. View of Lincoln's tomb surrounded by trees.

GLC05136.47

1815-1860

Object

Title: [metallic token with lithograph of Lincoln]

Metallic token painted black with gold designs and gold back. Center of token has colored lithograph of Lincoln under glass

GLC05136.53

February 27, 1861

Nixon, J.O., fl. 1861

Newspaper

Title: New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 307 (February 27, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. Reference to the gathering of the Southern Congress, which formed a committee to deal with public lands and also dealt with the formation of the cabinet. Announcement of Henry J. Ellet of Mississippi as Postmaster-General and Judah P. Benjamin as Attorney General. Proceedings of Louisiana legislature and the Federal Congress. Reference to attempt to shoot Lincoln. Page 2 and part of page 3 has a copy of the "Official Journal of the Convention of the State of Louisiana" -- contains 21 ordinances, each with a French translation. Advertisements for sale and rental of…

GLC05960.02.07

April 2, 1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Marshall Joffre, Vivani, Chocheprar and Fabry- French War Commission- With Gov. Lowden and State Officials at Tomb of Lincoln, Springfield, ILL.

Many men in uniform are gathered around Lincoln's tomb. There is an American flag.

GLC09584.182

1865

Hammond, Cyrena, fl. 1865

Diary

Title: [Journal]

One hundred and thirty three pages of diary entries and handwritten notes. Fourteen pages with preprinted text, including a title page and printed calendars. Previous research indicated that this is a "journal of Western New York teenager;" the title page cites "North Bergen" as Hammond's location. Discusses school and her friends: "Danced all the morn, & at recess we went out on the meeting house steps and danced for sharp to fiddle" (6 January 1865). On 9 January 1865, mentions attending a temperance meeting. In a note at the end of the diary, Hammond writes: "The 29 of this month,…

GLC09413

1864-1865

Hilliard, Thomas B., fl. 1864-1865

Diary

Title: [Diary of private in 50th Penn. Infantry]

Diary of private in 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, with entries from Sept. 1864 through June 1865, encompassing the close of the war: "Today the election took place for President of the United States everything moved off quietly majority for Lincoln in the 50th Regiment.... news of Sheridan's victory on the left rebels still retreating... [April 1865] a great talk of peace...2000 prisoners taken to City Point...considerable talk about the death of Lincoln."

GLC09320

1957

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

Book

Title: In the Mountain Wilderness and Other Works

This is a collection of poems and plays by the author Henrik Ibsen. This collection includes 7 poems and 2 plays. The title included are: "In the Springtime of life," "In the Picture Gallery," "In the Mountain Wilderness," "Terje Viken," "A Fragment of an Epic Poem Brand," "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln," "To My Friend the Revolutionary Orator," "Norma," and, "St. John's Night."

GLC09660