January 28, 2013
Frontispiece photographed through tissue (Lincoln). From The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Jarvis Raymond and Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1865). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 11, 2006.

Frontispiece photographed through tissue (Lincoln).

From The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Jarvis Raymond and Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1865). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 11, 2006.

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December 3, 2011
Split across the spread, the image joined imperfectly in the center; a mouthless Lincoln. From p. 162 (?) of American Primary Teacher, v. 15-16 (1897). [Here] Note: My orientation. —kcw

Split across the spread, the image joined imperfectly in the center; a mouthless Lincoln.

From p. 162 (?) of American Primary Teacher, v. 15-16 (1897). [Here]

Note: My orientation. —kcw

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