Abraham Lincoln Size:Large: 7 x 5in Campden House and Kensington House

Campden House and Kensington House can be seen

Rehearsal for the new Open Air Theatre production of Willam Shakespeare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Regents Park

Left to right are: Norman Golding

Duesenberg 'Mormon Meteor' car

An untidy scatter of books and papers is on the desktop

Abraham Lincoln Size:Large: 7 x 5in Campden House and Kensington HouseAbraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 1860s. Lincoln (1809 1865) joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later. In 1863, he proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in the southern Confederate states and later that year restated his anti slavery views in the Gettysburg Address. During his 1864 campaign for re election, he embraced the abolition of slavery. He was infamously shot by actor John Wilkes