Description

This calendar featuring twelve paintings by artist Louis Bonhajo of scenes related to the life of President Abraham Lincoln was published "to celebrate our 100 years of service" according to the front cover. The page for each month shows a painting at the top with explanatory text beneath and with the monthly calendar below. The paintings reproduced, the originals of which are in the collection of Lincoln Memorial University, are "Lincoln Visits Grant, 1865," "Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D. C.," "Lincoln with His Son Tad," "The Boy Lincoln," "Lincoln's First Nomination--May, 1860," "Lincoln Moves to Illinois--1830," "Lincoln, the Rail Splitter," "Lincoln, the Story Teller," "Signing the Emancipation Proclamation," Flat Boat to New Orleans--1828," "Lincoln at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863," and "Lincoln, the Country Lawyer." All pages are wire-spiral bound. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum