Abraham Lincoln Campaign Token
Unknown American, American
1860
Tintype set in a brass token
Overall: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ralph Becker, Father of William Becker, Class of 1964
165.31.31595
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Communication Artifacts: Documentary Artifact
Research Area
American History
Not on view
Inscriptions
obv: [Tintype portrait of beardless Lincoln, set in circular brass frame] inscribed: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 1860 [olive spray to right and left of date] rev: [MISSING tintype of Hannibal Hamlin], metallic frame inscribed: HANNIBAL HAMLIN / 1860 [olive spray to right and left of date].
Course History
HIST 18, US Political History of the 19th Century, Robert Bonner, Fall 2012
ARTH 17, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2013
HIST 18, Nineteenth Century American Politics, Robert Bonner, Spring 2014
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photography, Robert Bonner, Spring 2019
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
Provenance
Collected by Raph E. Becker (1907-1994), father of William W. Becker, Class of 1964; given to present collection, 1965.
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