Commemorative medal for the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address.
Obverse design based on the "Cooper Union photo" by Mathew B Brady, February 27,1860, New York City. Sculpted by Don Everhart.
Reverse design based on period sketches from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspapers. Design by Joel Iskowitz, sculpt by Don Everhart.
Lincoln was perhaps the first president to grasp the media as a campaign tool, and this medal acknowledges that the Brady photo, widely copied and distributed during Lincoln's campaign, and his Cooper Union Address text, also widely published in newspapers, secured Lincoln's nomination and ultimate general election victory to become the 16th president of the United States. |
