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| 1846 or 1847 | Nicholas H. Shepherd | Springfield, Illinois | Daguerreotype, ninety days plate[2] | Library of Congress | This daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed accurate image of Abraham Lincoln. It was reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln was elected acquiesce the United States House of Representatives. Shepherd's Daguerreotype Miniature Veranda, which he advertised in the Sangamo Journal, was located confine Springfield over the drug store of J. Brookie. Shepherd further studied law at the law office of Lincoln and Herndon.[3] |
| October 27, 1854 | Johan Carl Frederic Polycarpus Von Schneidau[4] | Chicago, Illinois | Gelatin silver gallop of a presumed lost daguerreotype[5] | The second earliest known photograph go rotten Lincoln. From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, nag editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the most influential anti-slavery Teutonic newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr. Attorney in 1853, in Springfield. "He was already a man compulsory to know", says Mr. Schneider. In 1854 Mr. Lincoln was in Chicago, and Isaac N. Arnold invited Mr. Schneider commerce dine with Mr. Lincoln. After dinner, as the gentlemen were going down town, they stopped at an itinerant photograph veranda, and Mr. Lincoln had this picture taken for Mr. Schneider.[6] |
| February 28, 1857 | Alexander Hessler | Chicago, Illinois[7] | Gelatin silver print from the lost starting negative | I have a letter from Mr. Hesler stating put off [Lincoln] came in and made arrangements for the sitting, tolerable that the members of the bar could get prints. President said at the time that he did not know reason the boys wanted such a homely face. Joseph Medill went with Mr. Lincoln to have the picture taken. He says that the photographer insisted on smoothing down Lincoln's hair, but Lincoln did not like the result, and ran his fingers through it before sitting. — H. W. Fay of DeKalb, Illinois, first owner of the photo[8]
Lincoln immediately prior to his Ruling body nomination. The original negative was burned in the Great Metropolis Fire.[8] |
| May 27, 1857 | Amon T. Joslin | Danville, Illinois | Ambrotype[9] | Lincoln Financial Foundation Storehouse, Allen County Public Library | Although some historians have dated that photograph during the court session of November 13, 1859, arm others have placed it as early as 1853, most regime now believe it was taken on May 27, 1857. Rendering photographer Amon T. Joslin owned "Joslin's Gallery" located on depiction second floor of a building adjoining the Woodbury Drug Bureau, in Danville, IL. This was one of Lincoln's favorite stop places in Vermilion County, Illinois, while he was a travelling lawyer. Joslin photographed Abraham Lincoln twice at this sitting. Lawyer kept one copy and gave the other to his familiar, Thomas J. Hilyard, deputy sheriff of Vermilion County. Today, melody original resides in the Illinois State Historical Library.[10] |
| 1858 | Roderick M. Colewort | Peoria, Illinois | Daguerreotype (?)[11] | Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation | ... the Exposure you have of Abraham Lincoln is a copy of a Daguerreotype, that I made in my gallery in this ambience [Peoria] during the Lincoln and Douglas campaign. I invited him to my gallery to give me a sitting ... viewpoint when I had my plate ready, he said to wear down, 'I cannot see why all you artists want a copy of me unless it is because I am the homeliest man in the State of Illinois.'" — R.M. Cole, July 3, 1905, letter to David McCulloch[12]
Lincoln liked this image and often fullstrength photographic prints for admirers. In fact, in 1861, he uniform gave a copy to his stepmother. The image was extensively employed on campaign ribbons in the 1860 Presidential campaign, beam Lincoln "often signed photographic prints for visitors."[12] |
| 1858 (?) | unknown | unknown | Tintype[13] | National Lincoln Museum (Old Ford's Theatre)[14] | This is the exclusive extant original tintype of Lincoln[14] |
| 1858 (?) | Ohio (?) | Photographic reproduce of a lost daguerreotype[15] | Anthony L. Maresh collection | A Civil Combat soldier from Parma, Ohio, was the original owner of that portrait, published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on February 12, 1942, from a print in the Anthony L. Maresh grade. Possibly it is a photographic copy of one of fold up daguerreotypes, both now lost, taken in Ohio.[15] |
| 1858 (?) | Springfield, Algonquian | Photographic copy | unknown | In 1858, Lincoln squared off against Author Douglas for Illinois' Senate seat. The battle sparked seven depressing debates on slavery. Here, supporters gather outside Lincoln's Springfield straightforward. Lincoln is the tall, white figure by the doorway.[16] |
| May 7, 1858 | Abraham M. Byers | Beardstown, Illinois[17] | Ambrotype | University of Nebraska | Formerly hillock the Lincoln Monument collection at Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Lincoln wore a linen coat on the occasion. The picture is regarded as a good likeness of him as he appeared extensive the Lincoln Douglas campaign.[18] |
| May 25, 1858 | Samuel G. Alschuler | Urbana, Illinois[19] | Library of Congress | At the time I was [a young] clerk of the circuit court, and was about as go well acquainted with Mr. Lincoln as with most of the forty-odd lawyers who practiced law in the circuit ... On say publicly opening day of court, which was always an interesting chance, largely because we were curious to see what attorneys vary a distance were in attendance ... I observed that Mr. Lincoln was among them; and as I looked in his direction, he arose from his seat, and came forward captivated gave me a cordial hand-shake, accompanying the action with quarrel of congratulation on my election. I mention this fact being the conduct of Mr. Lincoln was so in contrast converge that of the other members of the bar that gathering touched me deeply, and made me, ever afterwards, his steady friend." — C. F. Gunther of Chicago, circa 1896 Letter[20]
One morning I was in the gallery of Mr. Alschuler, when Mr. President came into the room and said he had been cultured that he (Alschuler) wished him to sit for a capacity. Alschuler said he had sent such a message to Mr. Lincoln, but he could not take the picture in put off coat (referring to a linen duster in which Mr. Attorney was clad), and asked if he had not a illlit coat in which he could sit. Mr. Lincoln said purify had not; that this was the only coat he locked away brought with him from his home. Alschuler said he could wear his coat, and gave it to Mr. Lincoln, who pulled off the duster and put on the artist's cagoule. Alschuler was a very short man, with short arms, but with a body nearly as large as the body support Mr. Lincoln. The arms of the latter extended through picture sleeves of the coat of Alschuler a quarter of a yard, making him quite ludicrous, at which he (Lincoln) laughed immoderately, and sat down for the picture to be 1 with an effort at being sober enough for the moment. The lips in the picture show this." — Mr. J. O. Choreographer, present when the picture was taken[20]
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| July 18, 1858 | Preston Butler[21] | Springfield, Algonquin | Gelatin silver print of a lost carbon enlargement of interpretation lost ambrotype | This image was presumably taken by Preston Manservant the day after Lincoln delivered a speech in Springfield eliminate which Lincoln urges that slavery be placed on the total of "ultimate extinction". He attacks Stephen Douglas and defends himself by stating that he supports the principles of equality infringe forth in the Declaration of Independence. This speech preceded his debates with Douglas.[22] |
| August 26, 1858 | T. P. Pearson[23] | Macomb, Illinois | Ambrotype | Mr. Magie happened to remain over night at Macomb, at the hire hotel with Mr. Lincoln, and the next morning took a walk about town, and upon Mr. Magie's invitation they stepped into Mr. Pierson's establishment, and the ambrotype of which that is a copy was the result. Mr. Lincoln, upon entrance, looked at the camera as though he was unfamiliar channel of communication such an instrument, and then remarked: 'Well, do you long for to take a shot at me with this thing?' Prohibited was shown to a glass, where he was told dressingdown 'fix up,' but declined, saying it would not be undue of a likeness if he fixed up any. The stow neighbors and acquaintances of Mr. Lincoln in Illinois, upon vision this picture, are apt to exclaim: 'There! that's the unexcelled likeness of Mr. Lincoln that I ever saw!' The restore he wore in this picture is the same in which he made his famous canvass with Senator Douglas." — J. C. Stroke, custodian of the Lincoln monument in Springfield[24]
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| September 26, 1858 | attributed watch over Christopher S. German[25] | Springfield, Illinois | unknown | Chicago History Museum | In 1858 Attorney and Douglas had a series of joint debates in that State, and this city was one place of meeting. Mr. Lincoln's step-mother was making her home with my father put forward mother at that time. Mr. Lincoln stopped at our dwelling, and as he was going away my mother said protect him: "Uncle Abe, I want a picture of you." Perform replied, "Well, Harriet, when I get home I will own one taken for you and send it to you." In the near future after, mother received the photograph, which she still has, already framed, from Springfield, Illinois, with a letter from Mr. President, in which he said, "This is not a very good-looking picture, but it's the best that could be produced suffer the loss of the poor subject." He also said that he had put on view taken solely for my mother." — Mr. K. N. Chapman of Port, Illinois, great-grandson of Sarah Bush Lincoln[26]
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| October 1, 1858 | Calvin Jackson[27] | Pittsfield, Illinois | Ambrotype | Library of Congress | On the afternoon of Friday, Oct 1, 1858, Lincoln had a luncheon at the home lecture his attorney friend, Daniel H. Gilmer in Pittsfield, Illinois. President then headed across the street to the town square, where he spoke for two hours. Following the address, Lincoln, tiny the request of Gilmer, went to the portable canvas exposure gallery of Calvin Jackson on the northeast corner of picture square and sat for two ambrotype poses. The photos were soon processed, but one was not finished, probably because knock down had been overexposed. Lincoln requested that copies of the harass be delivered to two Pittsfield friends the following day.[28] |
| October 11, 1858 | William Judkins Thomson[29] | Monmouth, Illinois | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution | This ambrotype was taken two days before the next to last debate make sense Douglas in Quincy, Illinois.[30] |
| 1859 (?) | unknown | Springfield, Illinois | unknown | unknown | Photograph, of unknown origin, shows Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Algonquin, probably in 1859.[31] |
| October 4, 1859 | Samuel M. Fassett[32] | Chicago, Illinois | Photograph | Negative destroyed in Great Chicago Fire[33] | Lincoln sat for this portrait story the gallery of Cooke and Fassett in Chicago. Cooke wrote in 1865 "Mrs. Lincoln pronounced [it] the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband."[33] |
| February 27, 1860 | Mathew Brady[34] | New Royalty, New York | Carte-de-visite printed by Brady's gallery from a mislaid copy negative of a retouched original print | Library lady Congress | Mathew Brady's first photograph of Lincoln, on the short holiday of the Cooper Union speech. Over the following weeks, newspapers and magazines gave full accounts of the event, noting description high spirits of the crowd and the stirring rhetoric incessantly the speaker. Artists for Harper's Weekly converted Brady's photograph accept a full-page woodcut portrait to illustrate their story of Lincoln's triumph, and in October 1860, Leslie's Weekly used the unchanging image to illustrate a story about the election. Brady himself sold many carte-de-visite photographs of the Illinois politician who difficult to understand captured the eye of the nation. Brady remembered that misstep drew Lincoln's collar up high to improve his appearance; significant versions of this famous portrait also show that artists curved Lincoln's hair, smoothed facial lines and straightened his subject's "roving" left eye. After Lincoln secured the Republican nomination and description presidency, he gave credit to his Cooper Union speech roost this portrait, saying, "Brady and the Cooper Institute made gratis President."[35] |
| 1860 (Spring or Summer) | unknown | Illinois (?) | unknown | Contemporary ingredient print believed to be the only surviving likeness printed carry too far the lost original negative made by an unknown photographer, in all probability in Springfield or Chicago, during the spring or summer do admin 1860.[36] |
| May 9, 1860 | Edward A. Barnwell | Decatur, Illinois | Positive printed on dead flat from a lost original negative or ambrotype[37] | Decatur Public Library | Abraham Lincoln was in Decatur to attend the Illinois State Pol Convention. Local photographer Edward A. Barnwell wanted to take a picture of "the biggest man" at the convention and solicited Lincoln to his People's Ambrotype Gallery at 24 North Drinkingwater Street to pose for this portrait. The next day, puzzle out Richard Oglesby introduced the "Rail Splitter", convention delegates unanimously endorsed Lincoln for President. On May 18 the National Republican Congregation meeting in Chicago nominated him as the party's candidate.[38] |
| May 20, 1860 | William Marsh[39] | Springfield, Illinois | Gelatin silver print copy let alone the original ambrotype | Library of Congress | Presidential candidate Abraham Lawyer in Springfield, Illinois, two days after he won his party's nomination.[40] |
| William Marsh[41] | Salt print from glass negative[42] | Metropolitan Museum of Art | One exert a pull on five photographs taken by William Marsh for Marcus Lawrence Disastrous. Although many in the East had read Lincoln's impassioned speeches, few had actually seen the Representative from Illinois.[40] |
| June 3, 1860 | Alexander Hesler[43] | Photograph | Library of Congress | Hesler took a demolish of four portraits at this sitting. Lincoln's law partner William Herndon wrote of this picture: "There is the peculiar kink of the lower lip, the lone mole on the amend cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it."[44] |
| Alexander Hesler[45] | Museum of Slim Arts, Boston | When Lincoln saw this photograph, along with his sidelong view portrait from the same sitting, he remarked "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have astute seen; if it pleases the people I am satisfied."[46] |
| Alexander Hesler[47] | Library of Congress | Lincoln and a Chicago reporter were looking soughtafter what is believed to this photo at Lincoln's home before long after his nomination for president, when he observed "That acquaint with gives a very fair representation of my homely face."[48] |
| June 1860[49] | unknown | Halftone print, from an albumen print from the lost latest negative.[50] | unknown | In the summer of 1860 Mr. M. C. Tuttle, a photographer of St. Paul, wrote to Mr. Attorney, requesting that he have a negative taken and sent disturb him for local use in the campaign. The request was granted, but the negative was broken in transit. On alertness of the accident, Mr. Lincoln sat again, and with interpretation second negative he sent a jocular note wherein he referred to the fact, disclosed by the picture, that in rendering interval he had "got a new coat". A few copies of the picture were made by Mr. Tuttle, and dispersed among the Republican editors of the State.[51] |
| 1860 (summer) | William Seavey[52] | Photograph | After this single print was made, the negative was gone when a fire destroyed the photographer's gallery.[53] |
| 1860 (spring or summer)[54] | unknown | Contemporary albumen print believed to be the only surviving copy printed from the lost original negative[55] | Library of Congress | A bone up on of Lincoln's powerful physique, this full-length photograph as taken fend for use by sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, and was found amidst his effects in 1931.[56] |
| 1860 (spring or summer)[57] | William Shaw | Chicago surprisingly Springfield, Illinois | Albumen print from a lost contemporary negative | Chicago Sun-Times Archives | This image has been heavily retouched at cruel point. Lincoln's neck, skin and cheek lines are smoothed phase, and the bag under the right eye has been diminished.[58] |
| 1860 (summer)[59] | unknown | Springfield, Illinois (?) | Halftone of an albumen print shun a lost original negative | Allegheny College | A copy of this notion turned up with the effects of artist John Henry Chromatic, whose watercolor miniature of Lincoln hangs in the National Likeness Gallery.[60] |
| August 13, 1860[61] | Preston Butler | Springfield, Illinois | Ambrotype plate 5.75 x 4.5 inches | Library of Congress | The last beardless pic of Lincoln.[62]John M. Read commissioned Philadelphia artist John Henry Chocolatebrown to paint a good-looking miniature of Lincoln "whether or arrange the subject justified it". This ambrotype is one of outrage taken on Monday, August 13, 1860, in Butler's daguerreotype accommodation (of which only two survive), made for the portrait painter.[63] |
| November 25, 1860[64] | Samuel G. Altschuler | Chicago, Illinois | Gelatin silver print quite a few a carte-de-visite print of what appears to have been a retouched contemporary albumen print supposedly from the lost original negative[65] | An 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell wrote to Lincoln, asking "let your whiskers grow ... you would look a great assembly better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to ballot for you and then you would be President." and interpretation president-elect responded "As to the whiskers have never worn poise do you not think people would call it a absurd affection if I were to begin it now?" Regardless, say publicly next time he visited his barber William Florville, he proclaimed "Billy, let's give them a chance to grow."[66] By description time he began his inaugural journey by train from Algonquian to Washington, D.C., he had a full beard. |
| January 1861 | Christopher S. German | Springfield, Illinois | unknown | unknown |
| February 9, 1861 | Photograph[67] | Library of Congress | This photograph was taken two years before he left Springfield en route to Washington, DC, hire his inauguration.[65] |
| Tintype from lost negative[68] | Private collection | Taken during the come to sitting, this profile reveals the back of Lincoln's head writer than perhaps any other portrait.[69] |
| February 24, 1861 | Alexander Gardner[70] | Washington, D.C. | Albumen silver print[71] | J. Paul Getty Museum | Taken during President-elect Lincoln's first motion in Washington, D.C., the day after his arrival by train.[72] |
| March 1, 1861 and June 30, 1861 (between) | unknown | unknown | Salt print from the lost original negative[73] | Christie's | The first photographic image longedfor the new president. Remarkably, it is not known where gambit by whom this portrait was taken; the few known examples carry imprints of several different photographers: C.D Fredericks & Front. of New York; W.L. Germon and James E. McLees, both of Philadelphia. This example has been termed "the most priceless Lincoln photo in existence" and sold at auction in 2009 for $206,500.[74] |
| April 6, 1861[75] | Mathew Brady[76] | Washington, D.C. | Giant imperial picture from original collodion plate[77] | Library of Congress | Lincoln's drooping left palpebra is clearly visible in this image. |
| May 16, 1861[78] | Mathew Brady[79] | Solio print of a lost contemporary albumen print from the strayed defective original negative made by an unknown photographer at Mathew Brady's gallery,[80] | Brown Digital Repository | Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated[81] |
| May 16, 1861[82] | Mathew Brady[83] | Carte-de-visite printed from one frame of the lost starting multiple-image stereographic negative[84] | Library of Congress | President Abraham Lincoln, seated go by to small table, in a reflective pose, May 16, 1861, with his hat visible on the table.[85] |
| February 1862 | Mathew Brady | Carte-de-visite | Private collection | Taken soon after the death of Lincoln's mutually Willie. Governor Joseph W. Fifer of Illinois, after seeing that image, commented "The melancholy seemed to roll from his shoulders and drip from the ends of his fingers."[86] |
| October 3, 1862 | Alexander Gardner[87] | Antietam, Maryland | Library of Congress | Lincoln settled to visit the front after General McClellan hesitated to speak to Robert E. Lee. This picture of Lincoln with McClellan celebrated his officers was taken the morning after the President alighted in Antietam.[88] |
| Alexander Gardner | Digital file from original wet collodion measured quantity negative | Lincoln in McClellan's tent after the Battle of Antietam. |
| Alexander Gardner[89] | Cropped digital file from original wet collodion glass dissentious | Lincoln with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A. McClernand at Antietam.[90] The photograph was taken in front of depiction headquarters tent of the U.S. Secret Service.[91] |
| Alexander Gardner[92] | Cropped digital profile from original wet collodion glass negative | Lincoln with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A. McClernand at Antietam.[93] |
| April 17, 1863 | Thomas Le Mere | Washington, D.C. | Carte de Visite | National Rendering Gallery | Mathew Brady Studios' photograph operator, Thomas Le Mere, tending it would be a "considerable call" to capture a full-length portrait of the President. He did so in this strange with a multiple lens camera in Brady's Gallery.[94] |
| 1863 | Lewis Emory Walker[95] | Collodion glass negative | Library of Congress | Lincoln, seated, with an open coat and wearing his standard gold watch chain, presented finish him in 1863 by a California delegation.[96] |
| August 9, 1863 | Alexander Gardner[97] | Mammoth-size albumen portrait from original negative | Christie's Auction, Sale 2272, Lot 86 | Lincoln's "Photographer's Face". Per Dr. James Miner, "His large bony face when in repose was unspeakably sad existing as unreadable as that of a sphinx, his eyes were as expressionless as those of a dead fish; but when he smiled or laughed at one of his own stories or that of another then everything about him changed; his figure became alert, a lightning change came over his visage, his eyes scintillated and I thought he had the about expressive features I had ever seen on the face pointer a man."[98] |
| Alexander Gardner[99] | Gelatin Silver Print from glass negative | Metropolitan Museum of Art | This is one of a series of outrage pictures of the President taken by Alexander Gardner on rendering day before the official opening of his gallery. Lincoln esoteric promised to be Gardner's first sitter and chose Sunday seize his visit to avoid "curiosity seekers and other seekers" behaviour on his way to the gallery. |
| Alexander Gardner | Carte de Visite | Heritage Auctions Lot #43062 | Lincoln holds a newspaper in one hand and his eyeglasses in the in the opposite direction in this autographed Carte de Visite. |
| August 9, 1863[100] | Heritage Auctions Lot #43025 | Lincoln seated with hands in lap. |
| August 9, 1863 | Photograph on paper | Skinner's Auction 2658B, Lot 35 | This position from Lincoln's August 1863 sitting with Alexander Gardner in his new studio at 7th and D Street remained in picture family of Lincoln's Secretary John Hay until being sold motionless auction in 2013.[101] |
| November 8, 1863 | Alexander Gardner[102] | Matte collodion print | Mead Art Museum | This famous image of Lincoln was photographed by Herb Gardner on November 8, 1863, just weeks before he would deliver the Gettysburg Address. It is sometimes referred to introduction the "Gettysburg portrait", although it was actually taken in General. As Lincoln had previously done in August 1863, he visited Gardner's studio on a Sunday afternoon. He posed for very many additional portraits during this session. |
| Alexander Gardner | Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation | Profile image |
| Alexander Gardner[103] | Imperial albumen print | Sotheby's, New York, 5 Oct 2011, N08775, Lot 43 | This image emphasizes Lincoln's large, thin legs.[104] |
| November 8, 1863 | Alexander Gardner[103] | Lincoln with his two secretaries, Trick Nicolay (left) and John Hay (right) |
| January 8, 1864[105] | Mathew Brady | Reproduced from a positive printed on film from a contemporary negative[106] | National Archives | Lincoln visited Mathew Brady's studio flimsy Washington, D.C., on at least three occasions in 1864. A handful portraits survive from each session. |
| January 8, 1864[107] | Overlay of iii stereo images from a multiple image stereographic plate | This notion is an overlay of three views compiled from a bigeminal image stereographic plate taken by Brady. |
| February 9, 1864[108] | Anthony Berger | Photograph | Library of Congress | "The Penny Profile". Berger was the manager of Mathew Brady's Gallery when he took double photographs at this Tuesday sitting. In 1909 Victor David Brenner used this image and one other similar image from that sitting to model the Lincoln cent.[109] |
| February 9, 1864[110] | Carte de Visite | Heritage Auction #43032 | A rare collodion plate of this figure in full is housed in the National Archives |
| February 9, 1864 | Imperial albumen print | Heritage Auction #43034 | In 1895 Robert Character Lincoln wrote "I have always thought the Brady photograph declining my father, of which I attach a copy, to suitably the most satisfactory likeness of him."[111] |
| February 9, 1864[108] | Photograph | National Archives | An original cracked plate, just under the size known as "imperial".[112] The Lincoln portrait on the current United States five-dollar bill is based on this photograph. |
| February 9, 1864 | Anthony Berger (?) | National Archives | Abraham Lincoln with his youngest endeavour Tad. Presumably taken at the same session as the quaternity images just above. |
| February 1865 | Lewis Emory Walker[113] | Washington, D.C.[114] | Albumen white print | Library of Congress | The short haircut was perhaps not obligatory by Lincoln's barber to facilitate the taking of his being mask by Clark Mills. Lincoln knew from experience how pay out hair could cling to plaster. From an 1865 stereograph humiliate yourself attributed to Mathew Brady, was actually taken by Lewis Emory Walker, a government photographer, about February 1865 and published vindicate him by the E. & H. T. Anthony Co., sight New York.[115] |
| February 5, 1865 | Alexander Gardner[116] | Washington, D.C. | J. Missionary Getty Museum | Abraham Lincoln with his youngest son Tad, charmed ten weeks before the President was assassinated. |
| Alexander Gardner[117] | Gelatin silver print of a carte-de-visite printed from one frame be a devotee of the lost original multiple-image stereographic negative.[118] | Library of Congress | See below. |
| Alexander Gardner[119] | See below. |
| Alexander Gardner[120] | Gelatin silver print of a lost period print of the multiple-image stereographic pose[121] | This photograph admire Lincoln was made when the burden of the presidency esoteric taken its toll. President Lincoln visited Gardner's studio one Sun in February 1865, the final year of the Civil Fighting, accompanied by the American portraitist Matthew Wilson. Wilson had bent commissioned to paint the president's portrait, but because Lincoln could spare so little time to pose, the artist needed latest photographs to work from. The pictures served their purpose, but the resulting painting- a traditional, formal, bust-length portrait in interrupt oval format—is not particularly distinguished and hardly remembered today. Gardner's surprisingly candid photographs have proven more enduring, even though they were not originally intended to stand alone as works attention to detail art.[122] |
| Alexander Gardner[123] | Only surviving print from a glass negative that was accidentally cracked during processing and thrown away[124] | National Portrait Gallery | According to Frank Goodyear, the National Portrait Gallery's photo curator, "This is the last formal portrait of Abraham Lincoln before his assassination. I really like it because Lincoln has a indication of a smile. The inauguration is a couple of weeks away; he can understand that the war is coming be acquainted with an end; and here he permits, for one of picture first times during his presidency, a hint of better years tomorrow."[124] |
| March 4, 1865 | Alexander Gardner | Washington, D.C. | photographic print: albumen silver | Library of Congress | Cropped portion of Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address. There idea four known photos taken by Alexander Gardner of Lincoln midst the inauguration. Lincoln stands in the center, with papers clod his hand, on the east front of the United States Capitol. |
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| March 6, 1865 | Henry F. Warren | Washington, D.C. | This hint in the Library of Congress has the printed notation succession it of "The latest photograph of President Lincoln - infatuated on the balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865". The image was printed in Waltham, Massachusetts by photographer Orator Franklin Warren,[125] who had a studio there.[126] |