Printed broadside; 17 x 11 in. (431 x 279 mm) (sight); toning; manuscript notations; unexamined out of frame.

A RARE BROADSIDE announcing the public sale of "Three Likely Negroes, Consisting of two valuable women and one boy, Lucy, Ann and Peter, the latter under 10 years of age" near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, approximately 15 miles from Lincoln's birthplace and boyhood home in Hodgenville. The imprint was produced less than six months before Lincoln received the Republican Party's nomination for president. Signed in type by Samuel Haycraft, Commissioner.

Elizabethtown, Kentucky native Samuel Haycraft (1795-1878) was a lawyer, circuit court clerk, state senator, and local historian. He was an acquaintance of Thomas Lincoln, a fellow Elizabethtown native and father to Abraham Lincoln. Haycraft was a correspondent of Abraham Lincoln's, and communicated with William Herndon when the latter was gathering information to write his Lincoln biography.

RARE: OCLC locates one copy.

Provenance:

Louise Taper, Beverly Hills, California.

Exhibition:

The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America, at the Huntington Library, October 1993-August 1994.