Mrs. Abraham Lincoln – Antique 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.)
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Step back in time with Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
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Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the sixteenth president, is the sitter in this glass-plate negative made with the wet collodion process, a method that was standard for portraits in the 1850s and 1860s. The image belongs to the Brady-Handy Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress, a large body of work assembled from the studios of Mathew Brady and the photographer Levin Handy and their associates. Wet collodion required the plate to be coated, exposed and developed while still wet, so sitters often held still for long stretches. Because the negative survives as glass rather than a print, it offers a direct record of the original exposure.
| Created / published | c. 1855-1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | negative, glass, wet collodion |
| Notes | Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection , Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 2,919 × 3,624 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-F-4 |
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