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TITLE: Lincoln & his secretaries, Nicolay & Hay

CALL NUMBER: PRES FILE - Lincoln, Abraham--Portraits--Meserve no. 56 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19421 (digital file from original item)
LC-USZ62-9708 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Photo shows President Abraham Lincoln seated between his private secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay at a photo session in Alexander Gardner's studio in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 1863.
"On this day John Hay wrote in his diary: 'Went with Mrs. Ames to Gardner's Gallery & were soon joined by Nico (John G. Nicolay) and the Prest. We had a great many pictures taken ... some of the Prest. the best I have seen. ... Nico & I immortalized ourselves by having ourselves done in a group with the Prest." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 142)

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : albumen ; 7 3/4 x 6 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [Washington, D.C., 1863], c1884.

CREATOR:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.

NOTES:

P4999 U.S. Copyright Office.

Title from item.

See: LC-USZ62-66974 for b&w film copy neg. of halftone, with caption.

Ostendorf, no. 76

Meserve, no. 56

Published in: Lincoln's photographs : a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, Ohio : Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 142.

Published in: Lincoln, a picture story of his life / by Stefan Lorant. New York : Harper, [1952], p. 175.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Staff.
Hay, John,--1838-1905.
Nicolay, John G. (John George),--1832-1901.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860-1870.
Group portraits 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 item) ppmsca 19421 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19421
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a12156 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a12156

CONTROL #: 2008680250

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