Album presented by the United States Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia branch, to Charlotte Cushman [manuscript], ca. 1864.

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Album presented by the United States Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia branch, to Charlotte Cushman [manuscript], ca. 1864.

Presented in appreciation of Miss Cushman's services for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Signed by many persons, including Abraham Lincoln. Also includes newspaper clippings concerning Cushman.

19 leaves : col. ill.

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts. She lived intermittently in Rome, in an expatriate colony of prominent artists and sculptors, some of whom became part of her tempestuous private life. Cushman made her initial professional appearance at age eighteen on April 8, 1835 at Boston's Tremont Theatre. She then went to New Orleans where sh...

United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Branch

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...