page_title: Louis Prang
section_title: Early work
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Prang / Early work
caption_attribution_description: English: The boyhood of Lincoln—An evening in the log hut SUMMARY: Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, reading by fireplace. MEDIUM: 1 print&#160;: chromolithograph&#160;; 54.3 × 43.6 cm.
context_page_description: Louis Prang was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
context_section_description: Prang's early activities in the US publishing architectural books and making leather goods were not very successful, and he began to make wood engravings for illustrations in books. In 1851 he worked for Frank Leslie, art director for Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and later with John Andrew of John Andrew & Son. In 1851, he married Rosa Gerber, a Swiss woman he had met in Paris in 1846.
caption: Lincoln as a boy, reading at night, by Eastman Johnson
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