Happy Birthday, President Lincoln!

February 12, 1809

Did You Know? Abraham Lincoln was the first president to: be photographed at his inauguration. wear a beard. hold a patent — it was a device that raised boats over shallow areas of water. die by assassination. From Internet Public Library's Profile of Abraham Lincoln
Books
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Jackson	Abe Lincoln Loved Animals
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Turner	Abe Lincoln Remembers
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Winters	Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books
	J 973.092 Lincoln Rappaport	Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll git me a book I ain't read." Quote from Abe's Honest Words by Doreen Rappaport.
	J 973.7 Lincoln D'Aulaire	Abraham Lincoln
	J 973.7 + J Talk 973.7 Lincoln Weiss CD	Abraham Lincoln and the Heart of America
Photograph of Lincoln, with disheveled hair, by Alexander Hesler, circa 1857. According to the book, Lincoln Through the Lens by Martin Sandler, this portrait was Lincoln's favorite.
	JP Burleigh	Abraham Lincoln Comes Home
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Freedman	Lincoln: A Photobiography
	J Fiction Wells	Lincoln and His Boys

"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected." Quote from Lincoln Through the Lens by Martin W. Sandler
	J/ 973.7092 Lincoln	Lincoln: In His Own Words
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Denenberg	Lincoln Shot! A President's Life Remembered
	J/ 973.7092 Lincoln Sandler	Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life

Two days after Lincoln was nominated as the Republican Party's presidential candidate, Leonard Volk made a plaster cast of Lincoln's hands. Because Lincoln's right hand was swollen from all the congratulatory hand-shaking, he grasped a broom handle, still held, to steady his hand. For more information about this photo and see many others, view the Smithsonian's Civil War website.
	J/ 973.7092 Lincoln Fleming	The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
	J 973.7 Lincoln Davis	Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers
	JE 973.7092 Lincoln Winnick	Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers
	J/ 973.7092 Jones	Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

	J 973.7092 Lincoln St. George	Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Thomson	What Lincoln Said
Lincoln's top hat — the one that he wore to Ford's Theatre the night he was assassinated. Courtesy of the Smithsonian's Civil War website.	JE 641.5973 Larkin	What Was Cooking in Mary Todd Lincoln's White House?
	J 973.7092 Lincoln Bial	Where Lincoln Walked
	J 909.81 MacDonald	The World in the Time of Abraham Lincoln
"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has." Quote from Lincoln Through the Lens by Martin W. Sandler

Music
J CD	Music for Abraham Lincoln: Campaign Songs, Civil War Tunes, Laments for a President
On the Web
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 1809-2009: Live the Legacy
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace (National Park Service)
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: Lincoln.net
Abraham Lincoln Home (National Park Service)
Abraham Lincoln Online
Abraham Lincoln Papers ( Library of Congress)
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
Abraham Lincoln Research Site
Lincoln 1809-2009 (Illinois Bicentennial Commission)
Lincoln Memorial (National Park Service)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Library of Congress Exhibits)
Presidents of the United States - Abraham Lincoln (Internet Public Library)
Smithsonian Institution: Civil War - Lincoln Artifacts, Photos & More
"...that by this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Excerpt of closing words from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Image and Information Citations:

Wallpaper is the Nicolay draft of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, retrieved from images on the Library of Congress' online exhibit of the Gettysburg Address

Photograph of Lincoln with Thomas (Tad), taken by Mathew Brady, February, 1864. From the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction number LC-USZ62-110212

Photograph of Lincoln by Alexander Hesler from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction number LC-USZ62-36582

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Children's Services
February, 2009