![]() ![]() Credit Line Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division 1865 Object number EXH.AG.88 Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply Type Photograph Medium Albumen silver print Dimensions Image: 22.7 × 17cm (8 15/16 × 6 11/16") Mount (Gardner): 28.1 × 20.6cm (11 1/16 × 8 1/8") Mount (LoC): 35.6 × 27.9cm (14 × 11") Mat: 45.7 × 35.6cm (18 × 14") See more items in Catalog of American Portraits Catalog of American Portraits Topic Interior Thomas Lincoln: Male Thomas Lincoln: Politics and Government\Son of US President Abraham Lincoln: Male Abraham Lincoln: Law and Crime\Lawyer Abraham Lincoln: Military and Intelligence\Soldier Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\President of US Abraham Lincoln: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist Abraham Lincoln: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Merchant Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Illinois Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\Government official\Surveyor Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\State Senator\Illinois Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\Government official\Postmaster Abraham Lincoln: Crafts and Trades\Boat builder Portrait Record ID npg_EXH.AG. Tad became hysterical with grief, shouting “They have killed Papa dead!” Sadly, Tad did not survive long himself, dying of unknown causes at age eighteen his mother was too grief-stricken to attend his funeral. Lincolns mother Nancy dies of illness in Spencer County, Indiana. On the night of Lincoln’s assassination, Tad was at another Washington theater when the manager announced to the audience that the president had been shot. Lincolns brother Thomas dies in Kentucky in infancy. Numb with grief, his wife inconsolable, Lincoln had to persevere even as his innate melancholia worsened with Willie’s death. A house is not a home without a family, and this was certainly true of the Lincoln Home. Lincoln indulged Tad’s rambunctious behavior because of the tragedy that befell the family when Tad’s brother William (1850–1862) died of typhus. History & Culture The Lincoln Family The Lincoln Family It is in Abraham Lincoln’s home on 8 th & Jackson streets that Abraham Lincoln raised a family, saw three of his children born, and one of them pass away. 20, 1862, age eleven, and his younger brother Tad (Thomas), posed with their mothers nephew, Lockwood Todd, in Mathew Bradys studio in Washington, D.C. He suffered from a cleft palate, which caused him speech problems. ![]() Thomas Lincoln (1853–1871)-nicknamed “Tad” by his father as a short form of “tadpole” because he was a squirmy, hyperactive child-was the youngest of three Lincoln boys. Object Details Artist Alexander Gardner, - Sitter Abraham Lincoln, - Thomas Lincoln, - Exhibition Label Abraham Lincoln’s family was both a refuge and a trial for him while president. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |