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Abraham Lincoln History Memorial Stereoview with Skeleton Leaves circa 1865 to 1875

1865réf. 97261865. Kilburn Brothers. Abraham Lincoln Stereoview Photograph of Funeral Leaves circa 1865-1875 preserves an early visual expression of the memorial culture surrounding Abraham Lincoln after his assassination in 1865. Centered on a cross incorporating a small portrait of the sixteenth president and surrounded by skeleton leaves the composition places Lincoln within the visual language of nineteenth-century mourning combining Christian symbolism portraiture and ornamental natural forms. Comparable contemporary stereographs were explicitly issued as "Lincoln Memorial" images using "dissected leaves" demonstrating that this arrangement belonged to a recognizable genre of commemorative Lincoln imagery. Kilburn Brothers. Stereoview photograph Littleton New Hampshire circa 1865-1875. Approximately 3½ x 7 inches. The paired photographic views depict a memorial arrangement dominated by a cross bearing a small image of Lincoln surrounded by delicate skeleton leaves whose exposed vein structures produce an elaborate almost lace-like setting around the portrait. The stereoscopic format was intended to create an illusion of three-dimensional depth when viewed through a stereoscope placing this image within a form of domestic visual entertainment that became particularly popular in the United States after the Civil War. Benjamin and Edward Kilburn established their stereoscopic publishing business in Littleton in 1865 and became major producers of views distributed for home viewing; the company continued under the Kilburn Brothers name into the 1870s. Lincoln's death generated an extensive material culture of mourning in which photographs prints memorial compositions and household objects helped transform the assassinated president into a national commemorative figure. Here that remembrance entered the intimate setting of stereoscopic viewing: a purchaser could encounter Lincoln's portrait and funerary symbolism as a three-dimensional parlor image rather than solely through public monuments or printed biography. The survival of closely related "Lincoln Memorial Dissected Leaves" stereographs by other publishers further documents the circulation of this particular memorial vocabulary during the 1860s. Light evidence of handling if any with no specific defects reported; near fine. A compact example of nineteenth-century Lincoln mourning imagery that joins presidential history with the visual and domestic culture of post Civil War remembrance. unknown books

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