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File Details: AFQEm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 12.5 Mb

Image ID: AFQE

Credit:

by La Mere (Thomas)

Date:

1861.05.16

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 8.5 in. triplex

Equipment:

chair

Locations & Lines:

Washington DC; District of Columbia

Persons:

Lincoln (Abraham)

Structures & Establishments:

Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington DC)

Sources:

Allen County Public Library; Illinois Library; Library of Congress; National Archives

Abraham Lincoln, at Brady’s Washington, DC studio.

Library of Congress also says: Photo shows Abraham Lincoln with a badly swollen hand after shaking hands with thousands of people during his journey to Washington, DC. During most of the sitting he kept his right hand closed or out of view. Probably taken on Sunday, Feb. 24, 1861 by Alexander Gardner at Brady’s Gallery on Pennsylvania Ave.

Ostendorf, no. 59
Meserve, no. 67

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