Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) [Warren, Henry F.; photographer.] The Latest Photograph of President Lincoln, Taken on the Balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865. Albumen photograph, 14 x 11 inches, laid down on mount, trimmed to the photograph; the original printed caption (though not the credit line) cropped and mounted on the frame back. (MRS) [Waltham, MA, 1865]
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the last known photograph of lincoln, taken two days after his "With malice toward none" second inaugural speech. Photographer Henry Warren had no appointment with the president, but tricked young Tad Lincoln into bringing his father to the balcony. "Posing just to please his son, Lincoln appears preoccupied and perhaps a little annoyed"--Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, O-112 and pages 213-4. Meserve 93.