Contributor
Frank and Virginia Williams
Description
This is a black and white illustration of Rosco Conkling, an American lawyer and Republican politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate and fully supported the Union during the American Civil War. Conkling is depicted as seated at a desk while peeling and apple. Conkling is depicted as wearing a dark suit and vest. The artist is named along the bottom left edge of the illustration. "Rosco Conkling In his seat in the Senate" is captioned beneath 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
Conkling, Roscoe, 1829 – 1888
Object Type
image
Format (original)
illustration
Format (digital)
JPG
Digital ID
FVW_NH_V5_Roscoe-Conkling_001
Source
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 49
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, Rosco Conkling" (1890). Images. 268.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/268