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Images of Honest Abe

Over the years, people have been as fascinated by photographs, drawings and cartoons about Abraham Lincoln as they have by the stories about his life. Try these titles in the library’s collection to see the variety of images of Lincoln.

973.7 HOL
The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print by Harold Holzer
Documents Lincoln’s rise to national recognition through the medium of popular print.

973.7 HOL
Lincoln Seen and Heard by Harold Holzer
In his own day, Lincoln was reviled as well as revered. Holzer looks at the development of Lincoln’s image and reputation in his own time, in prints, portraits and political cartoons.

973.7 OST
Lincoln’s Photographs: A Complete Album by Lloyd Ostendorf
The author spent 50 years assembling a photographic record of Lincoln. The book also includes images of family members and Civil War contemporaries.

Biography LINCOLN, A.
The Face of Lincoln
Watch Lincoln’s face change and age in this collection of photographs of Lincoln taken between 1846 and 1865.

Prepared by Bonnie Reid, October 2008
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