Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865 – Historic Photograph Print
![Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865, [1865 Feb. 18] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ec/ec4fae2fdba8-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, February 18, 1865
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Dated February 18, 1865, this albumen silver print shows Robert E. Lee in the last weeks before the Confederate surrender, a few months after he had been named general-in-chief of all Confederate armies. The date comes from a shelflist card that the Library of Congress has not verified, so it is worth reading with some caution. Albumen prints were the standard photographic format of the 1860s, made by coating paper with egg white and light-sensitive silver salts and then printing from glass negatives. Joseph Verner Reed gave this example to the library in 1949.
| Created / published | [1865 Feb. 18] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen silver. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Gift; Joseph Verner Reed 1949. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,251 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111702 |
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