Description
- Abstract:
- Halftone print of the bronze Saint-Gaudens statue "Abraham Lincoln: the Man" (also known as Standing Lincoln) in Chicago's Lincoln Park, as reproduced by C. I. Hood & Co., a maker of patent medicines in Lowell, Massachusetts. On the reverse is the title "Hood's Photos of the World / First Series. No. 24. Lincoln Monument, Chicago, Ill." along with text describing Lincoln's importance to the nation and the monument itself. Beneath that is advertising text for several C. I Hood & Co. products, namely Hood's Tooth Powder, Hood's Spelling School and Hood's Sarsaparilla.
- Notes:
- Housed with ephemera in Pr M156st
Citation
"No. 24. Lincoln Monument, Chicago, Illinois"
Lincoln Graphics.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:70050/
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Lincoln Graphics
Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …...