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TITLE:  Abraham Lincoln, Pres't U.S. / Alex. Gardner, photographer to the Army of the Potomac.

CALL NUMBER:  Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1972:018 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-19215 (digital file from original recto)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-19216 (digital file from original verso)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Photograph from the last formal portrait sitting, Feb. 5, 1865, in Washington, D.C. "One of five poses taken by Gardner ten weeks before the President was assassinated." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 219)

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : albumen, on carte de visite mount ; 10 x 6 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons; Ã1865.

CREATOR:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.

NOTES:

On mount: Entered according to Act of Congress, by Alex. Gardner, in the year 1865, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia.

Title from item.

Ostendorf, no. 116

Meserve, no. 97

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 224-5.

Accessions box no. DLC/PP - 1972:018

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite 1860-1870.
Albumen prints 1860-1870.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original recto) ppmsca 19215 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19215
(digital file from original verso) ppmsca 19216 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19216

CONTROL #:  2008680384



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