Portrait Gallery

The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

by Frederick Hill Meserve, 1911

Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner, 1863

59 From a photograph made by Gardner, in Washington, at the same time as the three preceding portraits, November 8, 1863. The original negative, of cabinet size, is owned by Mr. M. P. Rice, of Washington, D. C., who copyrighted a print from it in 1891. A photograph from this negative, published by Phil & Solomon, of Washington, D. C., about 1863 or 1864, upon which the President placed his autograph, is in the collection of Mr. O.H. Oldroyd, of Washington D.C.

59 From a photograph made by Gardner in The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Hill Meserve, 1911, pgs 70 & 71.

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