Historical Portrait
[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated]
![[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated], 1861 (Library of Congress)](/api/img/abraham-lincoln-half-length-portrait-seated-1861-qXSJ5EtqaoFtfYUmWbEN.jpg)
Archive record
1 photographic print.
About this photograph
The archive catalogues this as a half-length seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln, credited to Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries and dated to 1861.
No further verified information about this particular photograph is available. The circumstances of the sitting, the specific location of Brady's gallery where it was made, and whether Lincoln sat for this portrait before or after his inauguration in March 1861 are not recorded here.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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Rights & Attribution
Credit: Library of Congress
Reuse: Public domain. Free to download, print, edit and republish, commercially or otherwise. How rights work in this archive.
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