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Abraham Lincoln portrait postcard, front side
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Title
Abraham
Lincoln
portrait
postcard
,
front
side
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works.
Time Period
1860s
Description
A
jumbo
postcard
contains
a
black
and
white
profile
portrait
of
Abraham
Lincoln
. On the
back
on the
postcard
reads
,
“Abraham
Lincoln
.
Photograph
by
Mathew
B
.
Brady
,
made
in
Washington
,
D.C.
, on
February
9
,
1864
.
Brady
made
many
photographs
of the
President
during
this
visit
.
Brady
was
our
best-known
photographer
of the
period
. He had
set
up
a
studio
in
New
York
in
1842
and
later
established
a
branch
in
Washington
.
During
the
Civil
War
he was
given
permission
to
travel
with
armies
and
take
pictures
in the
field
.
Lincoln
was
planning
changes
in
command
that were to
prepare
for the
final
stages
of the
war
.
Within
a
month
he was to
summon
Ulysses
S
.
Grant
to
Washington
to
become
commander
of
all
the
Union
armies
. This
photograph
is
known
as the
“Brady
Profile.”
The
face
on the
Lincoln
penny
is
based
on this
photograph
. This
photograph
is
identified
as
Meserve
No
.
82
,
taking
its
name
from
Frederick
Hill
Meserve
of
New
York
, the
distinguished
collector
who
has
devoted
the
major
portion
of his
life
to the
collecting
and
identification
of
all
known
Lincoln
photographs.”
Collection
AV83
Abraham
Lincoln
Presidental
Collection
Format
postcards
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AV83_B01F06_021_02.tif
Image Height
4011
Image Width
5462
File Size
65740360 Bytes
Date created
2011-04-22
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