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Carte de visite and cabinet card of Abraham Lincoln

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02910 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Header Record Date: 1861 February-1864 February Pagination: 2 photographs Order a Copy

The cabinet card (GLC02910.01) has Brady imprint front and back, and is a variant of O-92 without the table and with L's lower hand cut-off (see Ostendorf p. 176). The negative was taken by Anthony Berger 2/9/1864 and is the basis for Lincoln on $5 bill. The carte de visite (GLC02910.02) is by Gardner 2/24/1861, republished by Gardner (imprint on verso), O-49 (M-71). It is the same image as GLC00919.01.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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