Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.

Executive Mansion, North Front

Artist Alexander Gardner (American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)

CultureAmerican | Scottish

DateApril 1865

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall: 13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm)

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.305

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAlexander Gardner American, 1821−1882 Executive Mansion. North Front, ca. 1865 Albumen print (photograph) In Lincoln’s day, members of the general public could visit the White House with relative ease and make requests or complaints to the president in person. Among those callers were painters, sculptors, and photographers, all eager to create and sell likenesses of this famous man. Twice Lincoln agreed to pose for photographers at the White House, but most often he went to their studios to sit for his photographic portraits. Gift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange 98.32.305 Exhibition History"Shooting Lincoln: Photography and the 16th President," Chrysler Museum of Art, February 10 - July 5, 2015.Published ReferencesMakeda Best, _Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America_ (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020) 132, fig. 70.