Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Photograph

Alexander Hesler

Maker
American, 1823–1895

Abraham Lincoln

June 3, 1860
Collodion silver or gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 9 1/16 × 6 1/2 in. (23 × 16.5 cm)
Matted: 20 1/16 × 16 1/8 × 1/8 in. (51 × 41 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1983.1133.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on inner mat, BL: Abraham Lincoln. From negative taken by \ Alexander Hesler, 3 June 1860. Meserve No. 26. \ Negative (retouched) now in Smithsonian \ Institution.
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