PUBLISHER: Kurz & Allison, Chicago.
MEDIUM: Lithograph,
DATE: c.1895.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 24 1/8 x 20" (612 x 508 mm).
DESCRIPTION: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American statesman and lawyer and 16th president of the United States (1861-1865). Lincoln is remembered as one of the greatest Presidents to serve the country for having led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government. He was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. <br><br> “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Abraham Lincoln, 2nd inaugural address, March 4, 1865.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fair condition with 1/8" margins. A few repaired marginal tears, one enters image 7/8" and a small section of the lower right corner has been replaced.
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