(Lincoln Home), Stereoview Photograph

Description

Offering a stereoview of the Lincoln home. The back of this stereo perfectly describes the item:

“This view of Lincoln’s residence was taken August 8, 1885, when it was draped in memory of Gen. Grant; this date was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the event described below…” The remaining text on the back of this photograph describes the political parade (which also occured on August 8; in 1860) that filed past the white-suited Lincoln standing at home and famously photographed by Chicagoan William Shaw (O-34). 

The home’s door and windows are draped in patriotic bunting, while a sign above the door proclaims, “Lincoln’s Residence.”

(Lincoln Home) ABRAHAM LINCOLN SPRINGFIELD RESIDENCE.  Springfield:  J. A. W. Pittman, North Side of Square, (1885).  Published by O. H. Oldroyd from Lincoln Residence.  Stereo view, 7” x 4-1/2”, with extensive printed information on the verso.