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[Robert Todd Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Robert Todd Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated], [between 1860 and 1870] — historic photograph
[Robert Todd Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated], [between 1860 and 1870]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [Robert Todd Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Robert Todd Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated]

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Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest surviving son of Abraham Lincoln, sits in this three-quarter-length pose, a format that showed more of the body than a head-and-shoulders portrait while keeping the sitter's face clear. The image is a carte de visite, a small card-mounted print that was popular in the 1860s and was often traded or collected like a calling card. Robert was a young man during these years, studying at Harvard and then serving on Ulysses S. Grant's staff near the end of the Civil War. Later he became Secretary of War and a prominent public figure, so a portrait from this decade captures him before that longer career.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1870]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Cartes de visite 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
NotesPhoto by John Goldin & Co.
SubjectsLincoln, Robert Todd,--1843-1926.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,001 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163781

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