Honorable Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States

"The short haircut was perhaps suggested by Lincoln's barber to facilitate the taking of his life mask by Clark Mills. Lincoln knew from experience how long hair could cling to plaster." "An 1865 stereograph long attributed to Mathew Brady was actually taken by Lewis Emory Walker, a government photographer, about February 1865 and published for him by the E. & H. T. Anthony Co., of New York." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 198-9)

Ostendorf, no. 103-C and 103-D
Meserve, no. 92
Purchase; 1909; (DLC/PP-1909:43670).
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 197.
Exhibited: "One Life, the Mask of Lincoln" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009.
Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Icons section.