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Abraham Lincoln, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front – Vintage Wall Art

Abraham Lincoln, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front, Nov 8, 1863 — historic photograph
Abraham Lincoln, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front, Nov 8, 1863. Historic photograph from the Lincoln collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Abraham Lincoln, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Abraham Lincoln, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front

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The sitting that produced this head-and-shoulders portrait, made on November 8, 1863, took place in Alexander Gardner's Washington studio less than two weeks before Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln faces the camera squarely, with a calm, direct expression that contrasts with the grim news from the battlefields of the previous summer. Gardner, a former assistant to Mathew Brady, became one of the most important photographers of the Civil War, and his studio portraits of Lincoln were widely copied and distributed. Because the image was reproduced so often, it helped shape how the public pictured the president during the war.

Created / publishedNov 8, 1863
Mediumphotographic print
NotesGardner, Alexander, photographer
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,581 × 5,476 px · prints to 15 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-P-31

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