Abraham Lincoln Manuscript Collection, ca. 1861-1865.

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Abraham Lincoln Manuscript Collection, ca. 1861-1865.

The collection contains: one autograph note signed (ANS), a response to a request from George Morehouse for an autograph (Springfield, Illinois, 10 Aug. 1861); one signed photograph [carte de visite], ca. early 1863; one autograph with no date; one autograph note signed by John Hay, a response to a request from the Illinois Street Union Sabbath School for photographs and autographs (Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 8 Oct. 1864); one autograph note signed, a discharge note (16 Mar. 1865 [from: Isaac Foot Collection, Mss 33] ); one photo-engraving proof by T. Johnson with no date.

.1 linear feet (1 box)

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Online Archive of California

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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...