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[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in Washington, D.C.], [1863 Nov. 8, printed later] — historic photograph
[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in Washington, D.C.], [1863 Nov. 8, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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 rare historic photograph captures [Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in Washington, D.C.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in Washington, D.C.]

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Made in Washington on Nov. 8, 1863, this head-and-shoulders study shows Abraham Lincoln facing the camera, the plain, direct kind of likeness he sat for often during the Civil War. The sitting came about two weeks before he delivered the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, and his steady, unsmiling gaze reflects the weight of that autumn. This print was made after the original sitting, and it is catalogued among Lincoln's known portraits in Lloyd Ostendorf's and Frederick Meserve's reference works.

Created / published[1863 Nov. 8, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Gelatin silver prints 1900-1960.
NotesOstendorf, no. 77 Meserve, no. 59 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 145.
SubjectsLincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112124

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