Dance Card, Union Ball, Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861

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photograph of artifact, LOC
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Library of Congress
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 27, 2010.
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Original caption
Dance card for Lincoln's inaugural ball, 1861
Source citation
The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Library of Congress
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"The Rail Splitters Polka," sheet music cover, 1860

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Lincoln campaign composition
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 27, 2010.
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Rail splitters polka [composed by Harry L. Tatnall].
Source citation
The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Library of Congress
Source note
The Railsplitter's Polka, composed by Harry L. Tatnall and published in Boston,1860

The Railsplitter (Chicago, Illinois), August 25, 1860

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Lincoln campaign newspaper 
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Library of Congress
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 27, 2010.
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document
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Yes
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Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
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Public
Source citation
The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Library of Congress
Source note
The Railsplitter Newspaper, editor  C. Leib

Detail of masthead also available here.

Abraham Lincoln as "Railsplitter." Cartoon image from masthead of The Railsplitter, 1860

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cousin of Abraham Lincoln 
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Library of Congress
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 27, 2010.
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engraving
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Yes
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Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
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Public
Source citation
The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Library of Congress
Source note
The Railsplitter Newspaper, editor  C. Leib
Cropped from larger image, also available here.

John Hanks

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cousin of Abraham Lincoln 
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Google Books
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 27, 2010.
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engraving
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John Hanks
Source citation
Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey F. Black, The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as President (Boston, MA: J.R. Osgood and Comapny, 1872), 2: 444.

Abraham Lincoln - "Railman" - political caricature, 1860

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Google Books
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 27, 2010.
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cartoon
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Public
Source citation
J. McCan Davis, "Origin of the Lincoln Rail. As related by Governor Oglesby," The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 60, Number 2, (June, 1900), 272.
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