Abraham Lincoln's Residence
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: referenced
content: Lincoln, Abraham
label: publisher
content: Landon, R.R.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of a corner view of a two-story wood frame house identified as the residence of Abraham Lincoln. A horse-drawn wagon, a man on horseback and pedestrians are on the streets in the foreground.
label: Description
content: This undated, hand-colored print of Lincoln’s residence in Springfield, Illinois, was most likely created in the period of high public demand for Lincoln images around the time of his assassination, during which many Northerners felt a desire to display a representation of the man they believed to be the savior of their nation. Lincoln lived in this two-story, twelve-room home from 1844 to 1861. In the print, a men on horseback, women with parasols, and a horse-drawn buggy all pass by the residence on the road. A beardless Abraham Lincoln and one his sons stand near the entrance to the home.
label: Description
content: On February 6, 1861, about 700 friends, neighbors, and well-wishers came to his residence to bid him farewell before he left for Washington. Lincoln departed Springfield on February 11, 1861, for his inauguration, but would never return to this home alive. His oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, donated the family home to the state of Illinois in 1887 and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
label: Description
content: The publisher of the print, R.R. Landon, of Chicago, also published numerous engravings of Lincoln by American artist John Sartain. After Lincoln’s assassination, Landon produced and sold mourning badges featuring the likeness of the dead president to the grieving Chicago public. Landon’s print bears many similarities to another printed by L. Prang & Co, “Home of Abraham Lincoln,” also found in the “America on Stone” Collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Architecture, Historic Residences
label: Subject
content: Carriages
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3676
label: catalog number
content: 60.3676
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 8 in x 12 in; 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm