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Abraham Lincoln headand – Historic Photo Reproduction

Abraham Lincoln headand, 1864 — historic photograph
Abraham Lincoln headand, 1864. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of Abraham Lincoln headand brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Abraham Lincoln headand

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Lincoln's face is the subject here, dated to 1864, the year he sought reelection while the Civil War was still being fought. Lincoln sat for photographers more often than any president before him, and his portraits were widely copied and sold to a public hungry for images of their leader. By the 1860s the daguerreotype, a one-of-a-kind image on silvered copper, had largely given way to cheaper paper prints, so a metal plate from this date is unusual and worth examining closely. The record gives few details about the maker or the sitting, so the picture is best read as a window onto how wartime Americans encountered their president.

Created / published1864
Original scan1,145 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference5_Abraham_Lincoln_headand_1864

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