William H. Seward, Sr., was Governor of New York, United States Senator, and United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. In the Secretary of State position he engineered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, an act that was ridiculed at the time, and became known as "Seward's folly"
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 …
