Teaching Lincoln with Primary Sources Primary Source Set

Lincoln’s Funeral Procession on Ford’s Theater with guards posted at Pennsylvania Avenue. Library of entrance and crepe draped from Congress/American Memory. windows. Library of Congress/American Memory.

President Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater. Rocking chair used by President Lincoln Library of Congress/American Memory. in Ford’s Theater. Library of Congress/American Memory.

Abraham Lincoln’s home with many Abraham Lincoln, George Brinton people standing on the sidewalk and in McClellan and other soldiers at their the yard in front of it. camp on the Potomac River with a black Library of Congress/ mat surrounding the photograph. Library American Memory. of Congress/ American Memory.

Abraham Lincoln without a beard. Library Abraham Lincoln with a beard. Library of of Congress/ Congress/ American Memory. Prints and Photographs Division.

Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell , Thursday, October 18, 1860. Friday, October 19, 1860. Library of Congress Library of Congress/ /American Memory. American Memory.

Vote for Abraham: Campaign song of Map showing the distribution of the slave ‘64/by Union. population of the southern states of the Library of Congress/ United States. Library of American Memory. Congress/American Memory.

Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Poem, “My Child-hood Home I See Proclamation. Library of Again.” Library of Congress /American Congress/America’s Library. Memory.

U.S. War Department, Washington, April Honest old Abe on the Stump. Library of 20, 1865. $100,000 reward! Library of Congress/ Congress/Rare Book and Special Prints and Photographs Division. Collections Division.