Lincoln – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Lincoln in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rather than a battlefield or camp scene, this glass negative is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, dated 1860, the year he won the presidency. David B. Woodbury, a photographer who died in 1866, made it using the wet collodion process, in which the plate had to be coated, exposed, and developed while still wet. The title comes from Civil War caption books, and the number 2394 scratched into the emulsion marks how the negative was cataloged. It now survives in the Library of Congress as part of a larger collection of Civil War glass negatives.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: 2394. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). Title from Civil War caption books. · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 3,076 × 3,784 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49781 |
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