The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

Collection Highlights

Newspapers and Ephemera

A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  National calamity! Lincoln & Seward assassinated!! April 15, 1865
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon The President Dead! 1865
A color printing of the Gettyburg address.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  [M. C. Brown copy of the Gettysburg address.]
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  $100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved.
A menu for an inauguration ball.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Bill of fare of the Presidential inauguration ball. March 06, 1865
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Lincoln Calvary. Col Andrew T. McReynolds, Commanding. 1861
A dance card cover.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  [Dance card for Lincoln's inaugural ball, 1861]. March 04, 1861
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon An Abolition traitor.
A broadside page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Ford's Theatre. Friday evening, April 14, 1865. 
A recruiting announcement.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Three years' men wanted! For the sixth ward. n.d.
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Is it peace or war? The Chicago Platform. 1864
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  President Lincoln's farewell address to his old neighbors, Springfield, February, 12, 1861.
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Charleston Mercury Extra. December 20, 1860
A recruitment announcement.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon Heavy artillery raised by authority of the state at the request of the Secretary of War and Major-General McClellan. n.d.
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Philadelphia Enquirer Supplement. June 28, 1860
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  The New York Herald. April 15, 1865.
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Appalling circumstance! The President dead! Escape of the Murderer! April 15, 1865
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  The nation mourns its loss. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1865.
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Jamestown Journal Extra. The President's death. 1865
A newspaper page.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  The Rail Splitter, October 4th, 1860 and August 25, 1860.

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