Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

91 c   (PRINTS—1860 CAMPAIGN.) For President, Abraham Lincoln—A Home for the Homeless. Engraving, 7 x 3 1 / 4 inches; minimal wear, mount remnants on verso. Np, [1860] [400/600] This small campaign flier, hardly larger than a bookmark, features a portrait based on C.M. German’s photograph of Lincoln, with a smaller inset of a rail splitter below. The “Home for the Homeless” slogan refers to a Republican platform plank regarding homesteading. Holzer, Boritt & Neely, Changing the Lincoln Image, pages 34-35. None traced at auction, and none in OCLC. 92 c   (PRINTS—1860 CAMPAIGN.) Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States. Hand-colored lithograph, 14 3 / 4 x 10 inches to sight; minor foxing. Not examined out of frame. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860 [800/1,200] A popular campaign print based on the Brady photograph taken just before Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address (Ostendorf O-17). “One of the most prized of all prints”—Lincoln Image, page 30. 91 92