• interesting detail. - Omiso
  • Would probably have been digitally removed if it were a modern photo.. - rod_bv
  • He's mesmerized!! - peterboero
  • Ghost face? - ATrumbly

Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, November 8, 1863 (LOC)

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.

Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, November 8, 1863

[Washington D.C., 1863]

1 photographic print : albumen ; oval 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.

Notes:
 Photograph shows President Abraham Lincoln, little more than a week before he gave the Gettysburg Address. Full-length portrait, seated with right arm resting on table, facing slightly right.

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 149.

Title from item.

Subjects:
 Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865.

Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19191

Call Number: PH - Gardner (A.), no. 10

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    mr.jones, Miss Mahoney, agnellina, Cunning Stunt, and 48 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. LotusMonger (48 months ago | reply)

    The man knew how to relax for a long portrait. He looks like a gent out for dinner, not the President during The Civil War.

  3. Quay Bell (48 months ago | reply)

    I have Always loved Lincoln~thanks so much for sharing these!~YAY~

  4. ISO1977 (48 months ago | reply)

    @LotusMonger:
    i believe his legs were bent at that reclining angle because they were too long to sit comfortably in the chair otherwise.

  5. He Who Must Be Named (48 months ago | reply)

    never seen this one. he does appear relaxed

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    Seen in your Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) set. (?)

  6. Gene Fama (48 months ago | reply)

    Gosh, that's a beauty.

  7. Cathie Stahl (48 months ago | reply)

    @iso and lotusmonger: At nearly 6'4" he was a giant among men at that time. Historically, furniture was much smaller then as it now as the population was not as tall. So uncomfortable... certainly.

  8. Omiso (48 months ago | reply)

    He was cool indeed.

  9. fw652830 (48 months ago | reply)

    A very stately pose of this towering six foot, four inch statesman of the Civil War era....Abraham Lincoln. We will remember your memory forever, Father Abraham. Enter into the Kingdom.

  10. dneverinaldo (48 months ago | reply)

    happy birthday Abraham Lincoln in heaven

  11. 11:19 [deleted] (47 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Eye Candy Art Post (share 1 comment 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  12. TJJohn12 (45 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Gettysburg, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  13. The Library of Congress (45 months ago | reply)

    TJJohn12: To have a Library of Congress photo added to your group "Gettysburg," please click on the "Invite this photo to..." link below the comment box and we'll accept it!

  14. bredlo (43 months ago | reply)

    Interesting to note that this photo was taken exactly one hundred years and 15 days before another President was assassinated (also felled by a bullet to the head.)

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