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Kansas/Nebraska Act
Broadside Against Slavery
Kansas. To Those that Desire that Kansas Should be Free. Worcester, MA: November 22, 1854. Printed Ephemera Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (016)
Digital ID # al0016

Lincoln and Douglas in Peoria, 1854
William H. Pierce. Reminiscence on the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in Peoria on October 16, 1854. Holograph manuscript, ca. 1900. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (018)
Digital ID # al0018, al0018_01–al0018_09

Railroad Map of Illinois
G. Woolworth Colton’s Railroad Map of Illinois. New York: G. Woolworth Colton, 1861. Lithograph. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (023)
Digital ID # rr002040
Reynolds's Political Map of the United States
William C. Reynolds and J.C. Jones. Reynolds’s Political Map of the United States, Designed to Exhibit the Comparative Area of the Free and Slave States and the Territory Open to Slavery or Freedom by the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, ca. 1856. Hand-colored lithograph map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (013)
Digital ID # ct000604
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The New Lincoln
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Finding His Voice
Horace Greeley to Joseph Medill
Horace Greeley to Joseph Medill, July 24, 1858. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (025)
Digital ID # al0025_p1–al0025_p2

Lincoln and Douglas
Calvin Jackson. Abraham Lincoln. October 1, 1858. Ambrotype. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (033)
Digital ID# cph-3g13901
Mathew B. Brady. Stephen Arnold Douglas. Daguerreotype, between 1844 and 1860. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (034)
Digital ID# cph-3c10141

“Little Giant”
Leonard W. Volk. Life mask of Stephen A. Douglas, 1857. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (035)
Digital ID # scsm/1058/003
Douglas Sets the Places and Dates
Stephen A. Douglas to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1858. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (026)
Digital ID # al0026p1–al0026p2

Lincoln Prepares for the Debates
Commonplace book created by Abraham Lincoln, 1858. Herndon-Weik Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (029)
Digital ID # al0029, al0029_01–al0029_07


Lincoln-Douglas Debates Scrapbook, 1858
“Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln” from Chicago Press and Tribune. Scrapbook created by Abraham Lincoln, 1858. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (030)
Digital ID # 0010

Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. . . . Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (031)
Digital ID # al0031, al0031_01–al0031_02

Lincoln’s Residence in Springfield
Louis Kurz. Mr. Lincoln. Residence and Horse. In Springfield, Illinois, as They Appeared on his Return at the Close of the Campaign with Senator Douglas. Chicago: Kurz and Allison, July 15, 1865. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (041)
Digital ID # pga-01932
The Lincoln and Herndon Law Office
The law office of Abraham Lincoln and William Herndon, Springfield, Illinois. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (037)
Digital ID # cph-3a14781
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Road to the Nomination
Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address
Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, in New York, in Vindication of the Policy of the Framers of the Constitution and the Principles of the Republican Party. Delivered in the Cooper Institute, Feb. 27th, 1860. Springfield, IL: Bailhache & Baker, 1860. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (047)
Digital ID # al0047_1, al0047_2-al0047_8

Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Portrait
Mathew B. Brady. Abraham Lincoln on the day of his speech at the Cooper Union, February, 27, 1860. Carte-de-visite photograph. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (046)
Digital ID # al0046
Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, March 4, 1860. Holograph letter. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (048)
Digital ID # al0048p1 and al0048p2


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