Contributor
Frank and Virginia Williams
Description
This black and white illustration is of Edwin McMasters Stanton, an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton is depicted as seated in an ornate chair beside a table and wearing a dark suite and eyeglasses. Stanton has an ink pen in one hand and a page of paper in the other hand. A heavy curtain is depicted as behind him and a bunch of papers are on the table. Stanton's signature is depicted below the illustration. This illustration is from volume five of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
Publication Date
1890
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Publisher
New York : The Century Co
Time Period
1890-1899
Subjects
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814 – 1870
Object Type
image
Format (original)
illustration
Format (digital)
JPG
Digital ID
FVW_NH_V5_Edwin-M-Stenten_001
Source
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 22
Repository
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Recommended Citation
"Illustration, Edwin McMasters Stanton" (1890). Images. 229.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/229