This Abe found here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3377/3316952448_c74fbb08a5_b.jpg
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This was found in a drawer in a filing cabinet in our local library in Eaton Rapids, Mi. No one, so far, knows where it came from or why it’s there.
This video by Liz Murphy Thomas (Assistant Professor of Art: Digital Media at the University of Illi ...
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Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008-2010 Delancy Place · Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.732.1600 ·www.rosenbach.org
Interestingly, when I went to the Library of Congress’s Lincoln exhibit, they had a ribbon that was very similar to this one and to the mourning ribbon in the 21st-Century Abe document section, but theirs was listed as an 1864 campaign ribbon. I wrote a note to someone at LOC, but haven’t heard back. I’m hoping to find out more about these ribbons.
Actually it is both a ferrotype image used for the 1864 campaign as well as a mourning item. There were a number of campaign items from the 1864 campaign that were retro-fitted with black silk ribbons for use after Lincoln was shot and during the long protracted funeral. This is a particulary fine example of such a conversion. I have seen a number of these. Let me know if I can help further. Gene