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Abraham Lincoln presidential collection [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: AV 83
Scope and Contents Collection illustrates the life and death of Abraham Lincoln. Included are portraits of Lincoln as a young man and during the Presidency; the Republican Presidential ticket of 1860 and the Union Presidential ticket of 1864; photographs and postcards of his boyhood home and his home in Springfield, Illinois; pamphlets and invitations to events held in honor of Lincoln after his death; photographs of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and photographs, prints and postcards of busts and...
Dates: circa 1860-197-?

Henry Ward Beecher [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 5258
Scope and Contents Collection consists of a cabinet card portrait and an engraved portrait of minister, author and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, son of Lyman Beecher and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.||||Credits: Engraver, J.C. Buttre; photographer, Chas. H. Williamson.
Dates: 185-?-186-?

Jacob Dolson Cox [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 2288
Scope and Contents Collection contains two cartes des visite portrait of Jacob Dolson Cox in military uniform. During the Civil War he rose to the rank of Major General. A print engraved and published by J.C. Buttre also shows Cox in uniform. A cabinet card portrait depicts Cox in civilian dress after the war. Cox served as Governor of Ohio from 1866-1868 and as Secretary of the Interior from 1869-1870 in the cabinet of fellow Ohioan President Ulysses S. Grant. Additionally, there is a black and white photograph...
Dates: 186--19--

Manasseh and Polly Cutler [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 2324
Scope and Contents Collection contains two engraved portraits of Manasseh Cutler. There is a photographic reproduction of one of these prints, as well as photographs of painted portraits of Cutler. Additionally, there is a photograph of a painted portrait of his wife, Polly, and a photograph of their home in Massachusetts.||||Credits: Portrait engravers J.C. Buttre and Moss Eng. Co. Photographer J. C. Brannan.
Dates: 18---19--

Robert C. Schenck [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 2027
Scope and Contents Collection contains two copies of a carte de visite portrait of Robert C. Schenck, an Ohioan who rose to the rank of major general during the Civil War. The carte de visite was published by E. Anthony and created from a photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. There is a print of Schenck in uniform engraved and published by J.C. Buttre. A second print picturing Schenck in civilian dress was engraved by G.E. Perine & Co. The caption of this print identifies him as a...
Dates: 1860s - 19--?

United States slave trade [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1509
Scope and Contents Collection contains a print entitled "Eminent Opponents of the Slave Power", 1864 : contains portraits of the following abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Henry Ward Beecher, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Lloyd Garrison, William Cullen Bryant, Wendell Phillps, Charles Sumner, Joshua A. Giddings, Gerrit Smith, Cassius M. Clay, Owen Lovejoy and Benjamin Lundy. The collection also contains photographic reproductions of: fugitive slave advertisements; illustrations of cotton picking on the...
Dates: 1864-19--

William Tecumseh Sherman [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 3946
Scope and Contents The collection includes a cabinet card portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman taken by New York photographer Napolean Sarony and three copies of a print based on the photograph engraved by C. Schlect. There are eleven additional prints depicting Sherman in military uniform. Photographs in the collection depict Sheman in military uniform; full length portraits of Sherman and his wife, Ellen Ewing Sherman; a portrait of Sherman with Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Philip Sheridan and Sherman with a...
Dates: 186--1970