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Abraham Lincoln – Vintage Print

Abraham Lincoln, 1862 — antique lithograph
Abraham Lincoln, 1862. Antique lithograph from the U.S. Capitol 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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This antique lithograph of Abraham Lincoln brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A Boston lithograph of Abraham Lincoln, issued by Bufford's Publishing House in 1862, puts the sitting president's likeness into wide circulation during the second year of the Civil War. Lithographic portraits like this one were cheap to print in quantity, so they reached parlors, offices, and army camps far beyond the people who could have seen Lincoln in person. Images of wartime leaders were in high demand, and printmakers in cities such as Boston produced them for a public eager to follow the conflict through faces it recognized.

Created / published1862
Mediumprint, lithograph
NotesIssued from Bufford's Publishing House, Boston
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,827 × 3,870 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182719

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