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 silver locket containing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln along with a lock of his hair. The engraved inscription on the back reads “This lock of hair was cut from the head of Abraham Lincoln April 15, 1865 by Schuyler Colfax for Mrs. Lincoln, from whom it passed to her sister [Mrs.] Ninian Edwards and to her daughter Julia Edwards Baker, then to Lucy Harmon McPherson, the daughter of Judge Harmon, Lincoln’s intimate friend and then to a friend of President Harding, who presents it to him as the exemplar of Lincoln’s spirit and the exponent of his democracy. Christmas 1921” President Warren G. Harding’s initials are engraved on the front. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F06_015
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: AV83 Abraham Lincoln Presidental Collection