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Photograph of Abraham Lincoln in 1862
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The Image
Photographer:  Gardner
Sitting date: 1862-10-03
Location: Antietam, MD
Technique: Photograph
Books
Hamilton '63 Pages 108, 117a, 378b
Book Notes
Mellon '79 [p 116]
From positive printed on film from the [[original negative]].
[[Photograph]] by Alexander [[Gardner]], [[Antietam]], Maryland, Friday, October 3, 1862.
Collections cited in Books
Mellon '79 [p 114]
Library of Congress
      
Lincoln moved (swayed) during the exposure. Slit-like eyelids are probably not a blink.

1 negative: glass, wet collodion.

4125 x 5120
 
4125 x 5120
 
 

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