Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right
Summary
An image from this sitting was the basis for the engraved portrait on the five dollar bill used from 1914 to 2007.
Photographer Anthony Berger worked at the Brady Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Ostendorf, no. 92
Meserve, no. 85
Vanderbilt, no. 447.
Glass broken.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Prints related to this image are in the PRES FILE: Lincoln, Meserve no. 85.
Gift, Louis Rabinowitz, 1952.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Published in Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 176.
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