Photograph Signed ("Yours truly, A. Lincoln"), 5 x 7 inch (127 x 178 mm) oval albumen print portrait attributed to Roderick Cole of Peoria, laid down to 7 x 8-1/2 inch (178 x 216 mm) matte laid down to 8 x 9-3/4 inch (203 x 248 mm) sheet, in 19th or early 20th century frame. 38 mm closed tear at upper margin affecting 19 mm of image, light toning and spotting to matte. Provenance: Printed snipe laid down to lower margin reading: "PICTURE WAS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN TO MR. RICHARD EDWARDS, OF ST. LOUIS, SOME THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS LEAVING SPRINGFIELD FOR WASHINGTON IN 1861, AND BY MR. EDWARDS TO THE PRESBYTERIAN DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTH WESTERN SANITARY FAIR. THE SIGNATURE IS MR. LINCOLN'S OWN AUTOGRAPH." A HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF A SIGNED LINCOLN PHOTOGRAPH, WITH NORTHWESTERN SANITARY FAIR PROVENANCE. This image, used widely during Lincoln's 1860 Presidential campaign, was shot most likely in either August or October of 1858 in Peoria, Illinois by Roderick Cole, who, with his brother Henry, operated a studio there. It is the most famous of the beardless images, and was a favorite of Lincoln's. The snipe at the lower margin of the image indicates that the photograph was donated to raise funds for one of the Northwestern Sanitary Fairs. During the Civil War, twice as many soldiers died from disease as from gunshot wounds. The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was created in 1861 to support sick and wounded soldiers, and to improve sanitation conditions throughout the military. The USSC established a series of Sanitary Fairs to raise funds to support the mission. Local citizens were encouraged to donated items for sale or auction, from machinery to food to art and war memorabilia. The first fair was held in Chicago in 1863, and Lincoln himself made headlines when the draft copy of the Emancipation Proclamation donated by him sold for a record $3000. The 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair raised nearly $80,000 for the war effort, at the time a record sum. This photograph was signed by Lincoln and given in February of 1861 to Richard Edwards, a Welsh-American educator who was the head of the Normal School in St. Louis from 1857-1861 before assuming the leadership of the Illinois State Normal University in 1862. Most likely, Edwards donated his signed portrait of Lincoln to the same 1863 Sanitary Fair's charity auction that Lincoln donated the Emancipation Proclamation. On November 8, 1863, however, at the close of the first fair, the Chicago Tribune lists, under "Prizes Drawn," a "Portrait of Lincoln" won by Mr. E.S. Fowler (likely associated with E.S. Fowler & Co., a Chicago-area drygoods merchant who supplied provisions to the U.S. Government). The current owner's family were innkeepers in Morris, Illinois from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, and family lore has it that the photograph was given to an ancestor in lieu of payment for lodging. It has remained in the current owner's family from the early 20th century to the present. C. Hamilton and L. Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, O-14. J. Mellon, The Face of Lincoln, p 34.
Photograph Signed ("Yours truly, A. Lincoln"), 5 x 7 inch (127 x 178 mm) oval albumen print portrait attributed to Roderick Cole of Peoria, laid down to 7 x 8-1/2 inch (178 x 216 mm) matte laid down to 8 x 9-3/4 inch (203 x 248 mm) sheet, in 19th or early 20th century frame. 38 mm closed tear at upper margin affecting 19 mm of image, light toning and spotting to matte. Provenance: Printed snipe laid down to lower margin reading: "PICTURE WAS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN TO MR. RICHARD EDWARDS, OF ST. LOUIS, SOME THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS LEAVING SPRINGFIELD FOR WASHINGTON IN 1861, AND BY MR. EDWARDS TO THE PRESBYTERIAN DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTH WESTERN SANITARY FAIR. THE SIGNATURE IS MR. LINCOLN'S OWN AUTOGRAPH." A HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF A SIGNED LINCOLN PHOTOGRAPH, WITH NORTHWESTERN SANITARY FAIR PROVENANCE. This image, used widely during Lincoln's 1860 Presidential campaign, was shot most likely in either August or October of 1858 in Peoria, Illinois by Roderick Cole, who, with his brother Henry, operated a studio there. It is the most famous of the beardless images, and was a favorite of Lincoln's. The snipe at the lower margin of the image indicates that the photograph was donated to raise funds for one of the Northwestern Sanitary Fairs. During the Civil War, twice as many soldiers died from disease as from gunshot wounds. The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was created in 1861 to support sick and wounded soldiers, and to improve sanitation conditions throughout the military. The USSC established a series of Sanitary Fairs to raise funds to support the mission. Local citizens were encouraged to donated items for sale or auction, from machinery to food to art and war memorabilia. The first fair was held in Chicago in 1863, and Lincoln himself made headlines when the draft copy of the Emancipation Proclamation donated by him sold for a record $3000. The 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair raised nearly $80,000 for the war effort, at the time a record sum. This photograph was signed by Lincoln and given in February of 1861 to Richard Edwards, a Welsh-American educator who was the head of the Normal School in St. Louis from 1857-1861 before assuming the leadership of the Illinois State Normal University in 1862. Most likely, Edwards donated his signed portrait of Lincoln to the same 1863 Sanitary Fair's charity auction that Lincoln donated the Emancipation Proclamation. On November 8, 1863, however, at the close of the first fair, the Chicago Tribune lists, under "Prizes Drawn," a "Portrait of Lincoln" won by Mr. E.S. Fowler (likely associated with E.S. Fowler & Co., a Chicago-area drygoods merchant who supplied provisions to the U.S. Government). The current owner's family were innkeepers in Morris, Illinois from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, and family lore has it that the photograph was given to an ancestor in lieu of payment for lodging. It has remained in the current owner's family from the early 20th century to the present. C. Hamilton and L. Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, O-14. J. Mellon, The Face of Lincoln, p 34.
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