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TITLE: [Presidential campaign button with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin]

CALL NUMBER: Unprocessed in PR 17 CN 541.2 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19430 (digital file from original item, front)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-19431 (digital file from original item, back)

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Political campaign button for Abraham Lincoln's first (1860) U.S. presidential campaign. Includes a bust portrait of Lincoln on one side and a bust portrait of vice presidential nominee Hannibal Hamlin on the other side; with a metal wire fastener. The Lincoln portrait was copied from a popular 1858 ambrotype attributed to Roderick M. Cole of Peoria, Ill. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 263)
This campaign button represents an early use of photography to advertise an American presidential candidate. Lincoln relied on photography, a fairly new new technology in 1860, to make himself better known during the campaign.

MEDIUM: 1 item : campaign button with tintype photographs ; 3/4 x 3/4 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1860.

NOTES:

Title from item.

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 263.

Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Hamlin, Hannibal,--1809-1891.
Political campaigns--1860.
Presidential elections--1860.

FORMAT:

Buttons (Information artifacts) 1860.
Portrait photographs 1860.
Tintypes 1860.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original item, front) ppmsca 19430 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19430
(digital file from original item, back) ppmsca 19431 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19431

CONTROL #: 2008680233

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