[Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President, looking at a photo album with his son, Tad Lincoln, Feb. 9, 1864]
Berger, Anthony, b. 1832, photographer.
[Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President, looking at a photo album with his son, Tad Lincoln, Feb. 9, 1864]
[Washington, D.C. : Brady National Photographic Art Gallery , 1864]
1 photographic print : albumen ; 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
Notes:
President Lincoln visited the Brady Gallery in Washington, D.C., with his son Tad, on Tuesday, February 9, 1864. "One of the most popular Lincoln portraits, this is the only close-up of him wearing spectacles. It was issued in huge quantities in many variations, with and without Brady's permission." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 182)
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 182-3.
Title devised by Library staff.
Forms part of: Arthur Wallace Dunn Papers.
Related names:
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.), photographer.