Abraham Lincoln Exhibit, A&I
ID: SIA2009-0441 and MAH 46625-A
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1959
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 285, Box 18, Folder: 3
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- An exhibit on Abraham Lincoln in the Arts and Industries Building celebrates the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's birthday. On the left is a large photo of Abraham Lincoln with his left hand on the back of a chair. In the center, an exhibit case has a mannequin figure of Abraham Lincoln with his left hand on the back of a chair. An exhibit case in the left rear holds original objects.
- A sign to the right of the image reads:
- "A man of sorrow and acquainted with grief A man of commanding stature and almost saintly appearance Yet a man considered by many of his contemporaries to be of uncouth and grotesque proportions.
- A man whose utterances are now engraved on tablets of stone as examples of the finest English prose Yet a man whose Gettysburg Address was considered a failure by many who heard it.
- A man thought by his more sophisticated associates to be behind the times Yet a man who knew he was ahead of this time and who suffered his friends and enemies to revile him because he knew that they knew not what they did.
- A humble man among proud men. A great man among lesser men."
Subject
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
- Arts and Industries Building
- United States President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
- Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 285, Box 18, Folder: 3
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1959
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Mannequins (figures)
- Government
- Exhibit cases
- Exhibitions
- Politics
- Political History
- Presidents
- United States--Politics and government
- Presidents--Biography--Exhibitions
Place
United States
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
ID Number
SIA2009-0441 and MAH 46625-A
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print