LINCOLN ABRAHAM Photograph Signed A Lincoln as President

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Photograph Signed, "A. Lincoln," as President, carte-de-visite portrait by Gardner, showing the President seated, legs crossed, his left arm leaning on a book and holding a newspaper, his right hand holding his eyeglasses. Signed on the mount below the image. Photographer's imprint on verso. Approximately 3x2 1/4 inches (image), approximately 3 1/2x2 1/2 inches; corners and top edge of mount slightly trimmed, discoloration from prior matting, minor scattered soiling. Np, nd

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This image was taken early on August 9, 1863--a Sunday--a time selected so as to avoid the unwanted attention of the curious. It is one of four images taken in the same instant, as Gardner employed a four-lens camera that allowed him to send each of the four parts of the negative to a different assistant in order to maximize production. As quoted in Hamilton-Ostendorf on the same page as a reproduction of the present image, John Hay made a note in his diary about the sitting: "I went down with the President to have his picture taken at Gardner's. He was in very good spirits." Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, 1963, p. 130, No. O-70.