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Lincoln’s presidency happened to correspond with the advent in America of the carte de visite, a small photograph printed on paper and then pasted on a slightly larger card. Collecting cartes de visite became enormously popular and embraced not only images of family and friends, but public figures and celebrities as well.
Anthony Berger, photograph of Abraham Lincoln, signed by Lincoln
Washington, D.C., after Feb. 9. 1864
AMs 776/27.2
I'm not sure what it is about this picture (also by Wendy Allen)that attracts me, perhaps the colors ...
When he took this picture on the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech, Mathew Brady probably knew wh ...
Great discussion of Lincoln photographs in general and the conservation of one portrait in particula ...
Chorus of freed slaves from the opera "Our American Cousin" presented in June of 2008
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