Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Size:18x24 The Baron Cigarette Patent of

The Baron Cigarette Patent of 188 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Fac Simile of the Original Draught of the Declaration of Independence in General Congress Assembled 4th July 1776 — Jefferson's working manuscript reproduced with every interlineation and strikethrough intact

Secretary of War 1841 — a Whig portrait of the Tennessean called to Harrison's cabinet in the spring of an ill-fated administration

San Miguel's leaning bell tower

Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Size:18x24 The Baron Cigarette Patent ofHon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860. A campaign portrait of the prairie lawyer on the eve of his improbable election issued by the young Republican coalition as the Union itself began to fray, the Illinoisan's likeness pressed into service before the first shot at Sumter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of