Abraham Lincoln Posters and Prints, pg 1 of 6
for the social studies and language arts classrooms, home schoolers.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, is best known for preserving the Union during the American Civil War and for the emancipation of the slaves.

Of humble origins, Lincoln was a self educated lawyer in frontier Illinois, noted not only for his shrewdness and practical common sense, but also for his invariable fairness and honesty.

The Creative Process publishes and distributes this portrait of Abraham Lincoln in poster, notecard, and bookmark formats with the quote “I am a slow walker but I never walk back...”, which alludes to the criticism of the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery.

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Before his election in 1860, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. Lincoln is also the only US president to hold a patent.

The poet Walt Whitman, who spent much of the Civil War in Washington, often saw President Lincoln on the street. Whitman wrote in 1863, “I think well of the President. He has a face like a Hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful with its strange mouth, its deep cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion.” Lincoln described himself as ...“in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes – no other marks or brands recollected.”