Lincoln, Mary Todd

Black-bordered mourning-period calling card (3 1/4 x 2 in.; 83 x 51 mm), engraved Mrs. A. Lincoln and inscribed by her above this "Compliments of the President &"; mounting remnant on the verso. [Accompanied by:] a tintype portrait, significantly retouched, of Mrs. Lincoln, matted and housed in a fine Union case with bucolic scene.

Black-bordered mourning-period calling card (3 1/4 x 2 in.; 83 x 51 mm), engraved Mrs. A. Lincoln and inscribed by her above this "Compliments of the President &"; mounting remnant on the verso. [Accompanied by:] a tintype portrait, significantly retouched, of Mrs. Lincoln, matted and housed in a fine Union case with bucolic scene.
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The calling card dates from after 20 February 1862, when Willie, the third of the Lincolns' sons, died of typhoid fever at the White House.