Historic Print, [President Abraham Lincoln, profile bust, May 16, 1861], 16" x 20"

Historic Print, [President Abraham Lincoln, profile bust, May 16, 1861], Image: 16" x 20"

Beautiful historic reproduction print from the Library of Congress collections.

Created between 1885 and 1911, from photo taken on 1861 May 16 Copy of a photograph that is a detail from carte de visite (Meserve no. 63 and Ostendorf 61-B) that shows Lincoln seated next to a small table. Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Frederick Hill Meserve. New York: Privately printed, 1911, p. 72. Title devised by Library staff. Date from: Looking for Lincoln: the making of an American icon. Philip B. Kunhardt, III. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, p. 468. Ostendorf, no. 61 Meserve, no. 62 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album. by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 100. Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Gelatin silver prints 1880-1920.

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