Lincoln Campaign Button
An 1860 U.S. presidential campaign button for Abraham Lincoln features his image on one side and that of his vice-presidential running mate, Hannibal Hamlin, on the other. Using photographs to promote a candidate was a relatively new idea in 1860. This tintype portrait of Lincoln was copied from an ambrotype that had been made in 1858; the original image was attributed to Roderick M. Cole of Peoria, Illinois.
Featured In
- United States Presidential Election of 1860
- States' Rights
- Civil War in Virginia, The American
- Religion during the Civil War
- Tyler, John (1790–1862)
- Ruffner, William Henry (1824–1908)
- The Republican Party of Virginia in the Nineteenth Century
- Republican Party of Virginia
- Underwood, John C. (1809–1873)
- Caldwell, Alfred (1817–1868)
- Stuart, Alexander H. H. (1807–1891)
- Lee, Robert E. and Slavery