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President Lincoln and Cabinet
- Creator:
- J. H. Bufford, Elliot & White
- Location:
- Massachusetts, Boston
- Origin Date:
- 1860-1920
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 14 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.1121
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
This lithograph features a head and shoulders portrait of President Abraham Lincoln in the center surrounded by portraits of the members of his Cabinet of 1861. The portraits are depicted inside of a gold-bordered patriotic shield with white stars on a blue field at the top of vertical red and white stripes. The cabinet members shown going clockwise from the top are Simon Cameron, Secretary of War; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; William H. Seward, Secretary of State; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy; Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior; and Edward Bates, Attorney General . The title is printed in the lower margin. Below the title the text reads, "Presented to the Subscribers of the Watchman & Reflector." Below the printed text is an inscription handwritten in black ink, "With respects of Ford, Olmstead & Co." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum