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  • The Metlive

    914 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    321 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "President Lincoln Visiting the Headquart"7 records

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[Presidential Campaign Medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin] by Unknown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Presidential Campaign Medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin]

Unknown

1860 · Tintype

Cleared · Public Domain

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[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland] by Alexander Gardner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland]

Alexander Gardner (d. 1882)

October 4, 1862 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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[Major General William Tecumseh Sherman Wearing Mourning Armband] by Brady & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Major General William Tecumseh Sherman Wearing Mourning Armband]

Brady & Co. (d. 1889)

1865 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Execution of the Conspirators by Alexander Gardner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Execution of the Conspirators

Alexander Gardner (d. 1882)

July 7, 1865 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Fall of Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of April 2nd, 1865 by Currier & Ives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fall of Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of April 2nd, 1865

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1865 · Hand-colored lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sergeant John Lincoln Clem, The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga by Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sergeant John Lincoln Clem, The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga

Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland

ca. 1864 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

President Lincoln Visiting the Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Battlefield of Antietam, October 1862

Alexander Gardner (d. 1882)

1862, printed 1907 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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