
During the Civil War, the prominent lithography firm Currier and Ives produced inexpensive prints of the conflict and its participants based on original drawings by some of the country’s leading artists. Among the company’s leading subjects was Abraham Lincoln, who Currier and Ives covered from his time as the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1860 through his death by assassination in 1865. What follows is a small but representative sample of their work on “Honest Abe.” (All images courtesy of the Library of Congress.)








