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TITLE:  [Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right]

CALL NUMBER:  LC-B8175- 3-X[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-19470 (digital file from original neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:  1 negative : glass, wet collodion ; 8 x 7 3/4 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [Washington, D.C. : 1864 Feb. 9]

CREATOR:

Berger, Anthony, b. 1832, photographer.

RELATED NAMES:

Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff.

An image from this sitting was the basis for the engraved portrait on the five dollar bill.

Photographer Anthony Berger worked at the Brady Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Ostendorf, no. 92

Meserve, no. 85

Vanderbilt, no. 447.

Glass broken.

Prints related to this image are in the PRES FILE - Lincoln, Meserve no. 85.

Gift, Louis Rabinowitz, 1952.

Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

Published in Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 176.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860-1870.
Glass negatives 1860-1870.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original neg.) ppmsca 19470 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19470

CONTROL #:  cwp2008000005/PP



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