Abraham Lincoln hair in silver locket, photographic print   Save
AV83 Abraham Lincoln Presidental Collection
Description: On Christmas 1921, President Warren G. Harding was given a locket containing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln along with a lock of his hair. The portrait is a painted sketch based from a photograph taken in April 1861. Text under the portrait reads, “To Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, from whose pious hand I accepted the present of an Oxford Bible twenty years ago. A. Lincoln” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F06_016
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: AV83 Abraham Lincoln Presidental Collection