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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1334396, member: 24274&quot;]The Lincoln portrait, ornately engraved by Henry Gugler, appeared in &quot;Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln,&quot; published in 1866. This was the first book to include a BEP frontis-piece. The portrait was used previously on the 1864 $20 Interest Bearing Treasury Note and $20 Compound Interest Treasury Note. (This is not a note I own, just an example for comparison.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Garfield&#039;s portrait, the centerpiece of an elaborate engraving for the president&#039;s 1882 memorial book, also appears on the $5 National Bank Note of the same year (again, a sample note from someone else&#039;s collection). This memorial engraving was also issued separately with a black frame and is considered one of the earliest souvenir cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1874 memorial book for Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner includes a Bureau portrait that later graced the $500 silver certificates of 1878 and 1880. (The note shown is actually from a 1996 souvenir card.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Samuel Morse was one of only two non-politicians honored with Congressional eulogies -- the other was Joseph Henry, director of the Smithsonian Institution. The portrait from Morse&#039;s 1875 memorial book also appears on the back of the 1896 $2 silver certificate. (The note shown is also from a souvenir card, from the 1976 ANA show.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Memorial books, for those interested, can be found relatively inexpensively online -- often $5 to $10 each. Those that appear on currency are the most sought after and generally run $50 or more. A nice copy of the Lincoln book may bring close to $200. You&#039;ll find a complete list, up to 1909, here:</p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=eh0CAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA1655&amp;dq=Checklist+of+United+States+public+documents+1789-1909++Page+1655&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=oRj8Ts-uD4GaiQLqw8SLDQ&amp;ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=eh0CAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA1655&amp;dq=Checklist+of+United+States+public+documents+1789-1909++Page+1655&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=oRj8Ts-uD4GaiQLqw8SLDQ&amp;ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=eh0CAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA1655&amp;dq=Checklist+of+United+States+public+documents+1789-1909++Page+1655&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=oRj8Ts-uD4GaiQLqw8SLDQ&amp;ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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