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"My name is Ralph C. Lincoln and I am honored to be an 11th generation Lincoln who also shares the same great-grandfather as ...
SACRAMENTO — A lost family heirloom that dates back to the Civil War has returned to its rightful owners in Sacramento. A framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln dates back to 1865. It was the same ...
When he died, it seemed that the Lincoln line died with him. But some contend that there is one last direct Lincoln descendant out there. From Abraham Lincoln To Robert Todd Linco ...
The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on Friday, ahead of Lincoln’s 214th birthday. The nine-foot-tall portrait, painted by W.F.K. Travers in 1865 ...
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has installed a rare, life-sized portrait of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. According to a release from the ...
Boasting both historic and artistic import, this remarkably rare period oil painting depicts one of the most recognized and admired figures in American history, created by one of the very few black ...
The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10. It’s a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: ...
Abraham never called Elizabethtown home, but a couple blocks away from the parking spot, there’s a portrait of him as a young boy that commemorates the time he and his family spent shopping in town.
William Pate & Co. of New York published this portrait of Lincoln in 1869. The engraver, Henry Gugler, is best known for his bank-note work. Although the copyright notice below the print indicates the ...
Now, with the arrival of Leonard S. Marcus’s meticulously researched “Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait,” we can add yet another facet to our 16th president’s complicated character: media ...
Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...