[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, traditionally called "last photograph of Lincoln from life"]

Copy of photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo in Lincoln's last photo session from life was long thought to have been made on April 10, 1865, but more recent research has indicated the earlier date in February. Image shows crack in original negative, which was broken and discarded back in 1865. The original surviving print is at the National Portrait Gallery.
Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York: Privately printed, 1911.
In pencil on back of print: "For Harry [...] Bland, with regards, F. Meserve, Apr. 20, 1938.
Ostendorf, no. 118
Meserve, no. 100
Original: albumen silver photographic print in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., item number NPG.81.M1, dimensions 45 x 38.6cm (17 11/16 x 15 3/16"), from a negative dated Feb. 5, 1865.
Gift, Joseph Verner Reed, 1955.
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 231.
Published in: The Face of Lincoln / compiled and edited by James Mellon. New York : Viking Press, 1979, p. 186-187.
Published in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve and Carl Sandburg. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944, pl. 100.

Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and worked as a photographer in Mathew Brady's studio. Gardner was sent to document the American Civil War and produced some of the most iconic images of the conflict, including photographs of the battlefields at Antietam and Gettysburg. After the war, Gardner photographed President Lincoln and the American West, including images of Native Americans, settlers, and the construction of the transcontinental railroad.