Key | Imgs | Short Description |
1997_DC_AFRH | 6 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2005_DC_AFRH | 5 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2006_DC_AFRH | 6 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2007_DC_AFRH | 10 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2008_DC_AFRH | 91 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2009_DC_AFRH | 2 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2011_DC_AFRH | 4 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2012_DC_AFRH | 77 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) Including some of the masonry damage from the earthquake. |
2013_DC_AFRH | 3 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2015_DC_AFRH | 22 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2016_DC_AFRH | 20 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) The Capitol dome seen through the trees. |
2019_DC_AFRH | 41 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) After a snow. |
2020_DC_AFRH | 2 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2023_DC_AFRH | 43 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2024_02_15A3_AFRH | 9 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) |
2016_DC_AFRH_Museum | 93 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) -- Museum |
2020_DC_AFRH_Museum | 24 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) -- Museum |
2019_DC_LincolnC_Good_Deed | 55 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Cottage: A Good Deed in a Weary World “A Good Deed in a Weary World”
January 9-31, 2019
January is a time for solemn reflection, bold action and new beginnings. While the Lincolns didn’t reside at the Cottage during this season, January plays an integral role in the Lincoln story. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation, crafted... |
2023_DC_Lincoln_Create | 103 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Cottage: Create To Free Yourselves Create to Free Yourselves: Georges Adéagbo Installation
Award-winning sculptor and found-object artist Georges Adéagbo (born in 1942 in Cotonou, Benin) is a virtuoso of site-specific installation, has transformed President Lincoln’s Cottage for a month-long special exhibition titled: Create to Free... |
2020_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Cages | 115 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Cottage: Iron Cages New Art Exhibition,"Iron Cages"
January, 2020
Featuring Artwork by Incarcerated Artists
This January we are partnering with our friends at the Justice Arts Coalition, a national network providing resources for people creating art in and around the US carceral system, to exhibit works of art created... |
2024_01_11B2_LincolnC_PPPrison | 85 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Cottage: Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project
January 5- February 19, 2024
This January, President Lincoln’s Cottage is partnering with Justice Arts Coalition on an exhibit, Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project featuring artwork by incarcerated artists critiquing the US Justice System.... |
2024_02_15A4_LincolnC_PPPrison | 43 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Cottage: Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project
January 5- February 19, 2024
This January, President Lincoln’s Cottage is partnering with Justice Arts Coalition on an exhibit, Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project featuring artwork by incarcerated artists critiquing the US Justice System.... |
2016_DC_Lincoln_CVC_MPIR | 60 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Outdoors: Museum Power, Influence, and Responsibility: A Public Art Installation Museum Power, Influence, and Responsibility: A Public Art Installation
May 2016 through June 2016
This May and June, enjoy the outstanding and thought-provoking outdoor art exhibit, Museum Power, Influence, and Responsibility. Commissioned by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), this art exhibition... |
2015_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Belief | 84 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: American By Belief American by Belief:
October 2015 through October 2017
On July 4, 1864, the same day the Lincoln family moved to the Cottage for the last time, Abraham Lincoln signed into law An Act to Encourage Immigration. This legislation cemented Lincoln and the Republican Party’s platform pledging that... |
2016_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Belief | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: American By Belief American by Belief:
October 2015 through October 2017
On July 4, 1864, the same day the Lincoln family moved to the Cottage for the last time, Abraham Lincoln signed into law An Act to Encourage Immigration. This legislation cemented Lincoln and the Republican Party’s platform pledging that... |
2013_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Diary | 11 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: AN See Diary |
2011_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Being | 21 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Being Lincoln Being Lincoln
August 2010 through September 2011
Since his presidency, Lincoln has been resurrected on stage and the silver screen. Lincoln still appears on stage and screen, but today it’s more common to find Lincoln posing for photo opportunities at private parties, waving to crowds from a parade... |
2020_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Boys | 36 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Civil War Boys Special Exhibit: Civil War Boys
Rarely seen prints and other objects from our collection are interpreted through the hit song “Boys” — a retro funk song from soulful, popular singer, Lizzo. This whimsical exhibit is currently on display in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Center. |
2018_DC_Lincoln_CVC_DOI | 6 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Declaration of Independence |
2015_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Death | 4 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Final Goblet & Death Arm Band originALs: Memorial Objects From The Collection
March 2015 through August 2015
Funeral Gloves and Arm Bands: Private Albert Nelson See served in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidential Guard (Company K, 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers) at the Cottage and White House. He wore these gloves and arm bands to... |
2008_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Eman | 16 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: In Pursuit of Emancipation |
2013_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Case | 2 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Lincoln's Briefcase originALs: Lincoln’s Briefcase and Tad’s Photo Album
January 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014
While living at the Cottage with his family during the summers of 1862, 1863, and 1864, President Lincoln carried papers in the briefcase on his daily commute to the White House. The briefcase served as a... |
2019_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Slip | 8 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Lincoln's Slippers Lincoln’s Slippers return to the Cottage!
July 29, 2019 - January 31, 2020
While Abraham Lincoln’s public image was defined by his signature stovepipe hat, his private, more casual nature is highlighted in the newest exhibit at President Lincoln’s Cottage. Meetings at the Cottage were often impromptu... |
2020_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Slip | 8 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Lincoln’s Slippers Lincoln’s Slippers return to the Cottage!
July 29, 2019 - January 31, 2020
While Abraham Lincoln’s public image was defined by his signature stovepipe hat, his private, more casual nature is highlighted in the newest exhibit at President Lincoln’s Cottage. Meetings at the Cottage were often impromptu... |
2015_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Risk | 31 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Not An American Practice: Lincoln's Life at Risk Not an American Practice: Lincoln’s Life at Risk
January 2015 through September 2015
Abraham Lincoln risked his and his family’s safety to live at the Cottage for more than a quarter of his presidency. However, for much of this time, Lincoln rode to and from the White House alone and unguarded,... |
2019_DC_Lincoln_CVC_SOS | 5 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Presidential Award for Students Opposing Slavery Students Opposing Slavery (SOS), a youth education program of President Lincoln’s Cottage, was awarded the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons on Monday, October 24th, 2016 at the meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat... |
2021_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Reflex | 197 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Reflections on Grief and Child Loss Featured Exhibit: Reflections on Grief and Child Loss
Understanding History (and Ourselves) Through Empathy
When Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s son, Willie, died at 11 years old in February 1862, they once again experienced what is called “the greatest tragedy.” Willie was their second son to die from... |
2023_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Reflex | 120 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Reflections on Grief and Child Loss Featured Exhibit: Reflections on Grief and Child Loss
Understanding History (and Ourselves) Through Empathy
When Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s son, Willie, died at 11 years old in February 1862, they once again experienced what is called “the greatest tragedy.” Willie was their second son to die from... |
2016_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Im1986 | 11 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Immigration Act originALs: Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Immigration Act
On view through December 2016
President Lincoln’s Cottage and the National Archives are proud to collaborate in the first-ever public display of the Immigration Reform and Control Act signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in November 1986. The... |
2005_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2006_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 1 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2007_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 18 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2008_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 24 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2011_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 67 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2012_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 16 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2013_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 6 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2017_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 2 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2018_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 9 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2019_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 9 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2020_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 20 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2021_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC | 4 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center |
2017_DC_Lincoln_CottageVCS | 18 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center -- Store |
1997_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 13 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2005_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 18 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2006_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 16 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2007_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 30 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2008_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 42 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2009_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 23 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2010_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 2 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) Including pictures of the new Mary Lincoln Room. |
2011_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 29 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) Including a visit by Dad and Dixie. |
2012_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 23 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2013_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 48 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2015_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 35 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) President Lincoln’s Cottage Draped in Black
April 18-30, 2015. President Lincoln’s Cottage, 140 Rock Creek Church Road, NW Washington DC. Within days of President Lincoln’s death in 1865, staff and residents of the Soldiers’ Home (now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home) draped the Cottage in... |
2016_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 10 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) An attempt to photograph the dome of the Capitol from the cannons by the gazebo. |
2017_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 18 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2018_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 26 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2019_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 41 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) After a snow. |
2020_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 10 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2021_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2022_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 16 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2023_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 36 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2024_01_11B1_Lincoln_Cottage | 20 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2024_02_15A1_Lincoln_Cottage | 20 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2024_02_20A1_Lincoln_Cottage | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) |
2005_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2006_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 55 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2007_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 10 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2008_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 64 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2009_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2010_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 3 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2012_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 28 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2013_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 6 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2017_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 34 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2019_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 1 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2021_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 6 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2022_DC_Lincoln_CottageI | 5 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2024_02_15A2_Lincoln_CottageI | 4 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images |
2010_DC_Lincoln_CottageIML | 13 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images -- Mary Lincoln's Room |
Key | Imgs | Short Description |
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2024_03_23A1_Lincoln | 181 | Abraham Lincoln 2024 Symposium @ Fords Theatre (Page 1 of 2) Abraham Lincoln Institute Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium
“The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship”
Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, g... (Partially reviewed) |
2024_04_09A2_Ghosts | 205 | Library of Congress -- Event: Library Hosts Cast Members of CBS Comedy Ghosts Library Hosts Cast Members of CBS Comedy Ghosts
Event to Feature Panel with Asher Grodman, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Rebecca Wisocky, Román Zaragoza, Library Items Curated for Each Ghost’s Time Period and Special Episode Screening
The Library of Congress will host cast members from CBS’s hi... (Partially reviewed) |
2024_03_23A4_Lincoln4 | 179 | Abraham Lincoln 2024 Symposium @ Fords Theatre (Page 2 of 2) Abraham Lincoln Institute Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium
“The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship”
Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, g... (Partially reviewed) |
2024_01_14B1_Gonna_Take | 196 | Labor Heritage Foundation @ McGinty's Public House -- MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball" (Page 1 of 2) MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball"
Recommit to Dr. King’s dream of equality and justice for all and celebrate Elise Bryant’s well-deserved retirement from LHF!
By Labor Heritage Foundation
Tickets are now FREE! Thanks to the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO, AFSCME 112, the International Association of Heat ... |
2024_02_13B1_USCHS_Freedom | 218 | USCHS -- Freedom Award (2024) to Cheryl L. Johnson (Page 2 of 2) Everything else We look forward to your attendance at the Freedom Award Reception honoring Cheryl L. Johnson, the 36th Clerk of the House of Representatives
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society is honored to present its 2023 Freedom Award to Cheryl L. Johnson to recognize her exceptional leadership and pivotal role ... (Partially reviewed) |