CENTRAL ILLINOIS TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES NEWSLETTER February 2009 Lincoln at 200 Welcome to the 22nd issue of the Central Lincoln in Art: Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter, a collaborative project of Teaching with Primary Sources Programs at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Eastern Illinois University. The celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday this month will bring a close to our newsletter focus on Abraham Lincoln. Galbraith Map Illinois This newsletter will take a look at some Lincoln resources from the Library of Congress that we would like to spotlight. Some may be familiar to you while others are brand new. Introduction—pg 1 Prints and Photographs: Prints and It seems that the Library of Congress Photographs —pg 1 digitizes new items daily. Here are a few Lincoln Resources— examples from the Prints and Photograph pg 2 Division. Source Site—pg 3 Campaigns: Portraits: Contact Information Amy Wilkinson Family: [email protected] Cindy Rich [email protected] Editor Melissa Carr [email protected] Websites www.eiu.edu/~eiutps www.siue.edu/ education/tps Page 2 Lincoln at 200 Lincoln Resources Learning Page: Abraham Lincoln Resource Guide http:// Community Center www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/presidents/lincoln/ Abraham Lincoln http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ community/cc_lincoln.php American Memory: Lincoln’s Speech at Collection Connection: G e t t y s b u r g : E m i l e The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Berliner and the Birth of Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ the Recording Industry learn/collections/papers/thinking.html http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ query/r?ammem/berl:@field “We’ll Sing to Abe our Songs”: Sheet (NUMBER+@band Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and (berl+136012)) the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Abraham Lincoln Papers at Stern Collection of Lincolniana http:// the Library of Congress memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/lincoln/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ alhtml/ history.html malhome.html Exhibitions: Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, Monday, Lincoln for President http://www.loc.gov/ exhibits/treasures/trm008.html September 27, 1841 (personal affairs) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=mal&fileName=mal3/433/4333300/ Inaugural Bible: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ malpage.db&recNum=0 treasures/trt040.html Abraham Lincoln to Elias H. Merryman, Lincoln’s Student Sum September 19, 1942 (Dueling Book http://www.loc.gov/ exhibits/treasures/trm133.html Instructions) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/000/0003800/ malpage.db&recNum=0 Special Presentations: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln to Congress, January P r e s i d e n t A b r a h a m 12, 1848 (Speech regarding Mexican Lincoln http:// War) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? memory.loc.gov/ammem/ collId=mal&fileName=mal1/000/0007400/ alhtml/alrintr.html malpage.db&recNum=0 Lincoln I-Spy http:// Zenas C. Robbins to Abraham Lincoln, learning.loc.gov/learn/features/ inaug/ispy2.html Friday, April 13, 1849 (patent) http:// memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? Webcasts: collId=mal&fileName=mal1/002/0024500/ malpage.db&recNum=0 Douglas Wilson—Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Abraham Lincoln Poem (“My Power of Words http:// Childhood Home I See Again) http:// www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/ memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? feature_wdesc.php?rec=4034 colId=mal&fileName=mal3/433/4334400/ malpage.db&recNum=0 Walt Whitman’s Elegy for Lincoln http:// Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/ Lincoln, November 2, (1862) (Affairs feature_wdesc.php?rec=3682 in New York) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ ampage? Lincoln and Whitman: collId=mal&fileName=mal2/423/4238500/ Parallel Lives in Civil malpage.db&recNum=0 War Washington http:// www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/ Abraham Lincoln to James A. feature_wdesc.php?rec=3359 McDougall, Friday, March 14, 1862 (Lincoln’s plan for compensated Web Guide: emancipation) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- President’s as Poets bin/ampage? http://www.loc.gov/rr/ collId=mal&fileName=mal1/150/1502100/ program/bib/prespoetry/al.html malpage.db&recNum=0 Lincoln at 200 Page 3 Image Sources Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln Prints and Photographs Library of Congress A. Lincoln Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Photograph of a campaign button with portrait of Abraham Lincoln and inscription "For President Abraham Lincoln"] Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Lincoln, Robert (son of Abraham Lincoln) Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Mary Todd Lincoln] / Brady. Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Tad Lincoln, standing, leaning against a chair] / Brady Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Thomas Lincoln, born 1779, died 1851 Prints and Photographs Library of Congress President Lincoln and family circle Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Willie Lincoln, third son of President Lincoln. Died February 20, 1862, at the age of 12 Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, full-length, standing, facing front, as captain in the militia, ca. 1832] Prints and Photographs Page 4 Lincoln at 200 Image Sources Library of Congress [Lincoln standing beside a man's bed] Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Lincoln on flag-draped platform] Prints and Photographs Library of Congress The pioneer boy, or the early life of Abraham Lincoln Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Lincoln & his secretaries, Nicolay & Hay Prints and Photographs Library of Congress [Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, taken in Chicago, Illinois Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln posed in a borrowed coat, in Urbana, Illinois Prints and Photographs Library of Congress President Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated facing right Prints and Photographs Library of Congress President elect, Abraham Lincoln Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, President Elect of the United States of America, with scenes and incidents in his life -- phot. by P. Butler, Springfield, Ill. Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln: Two weeks before final Lincoln-Douglas debate in Lincoln's unsuccessful bid for the Senate, Pittsfield, Illinois Prints and Photographs Library of Congress Letter and corrected reprint of Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" with comments by author, 9 February 1888. (Walt Whitman Collection) American Memory Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing front, January 8, 1864] / Brady, New York. Prints and Photographs .