Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.

Abraham Lincoln

Artist Anthony Berger (American (born Germany), 1832 - circa 1897)

DateFebruary 9, 1864

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 5 13/16 × 4 1/16 in. (14.8 × 10.3 cm)
Overall, Support: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (16.5 × 10.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

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

Object number98.32.311

Terms

U.S. Civil War
Men
Military affairs

Collections

Photography

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. Image of Lincoln seated. he is wearing a suit and facing slightly to the right side of the picture. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAnthony Berger American, born ca. 1832 Abraham Lincoln, 1864 Albumen print (photograph) Lincoln sat for this photograph in Mathew Brady’s Washington, D.C., studio on February 9, 1864. The studio manager Anthony Berger operated the camera and made a total of seven images that day. This portrait appeared on U.S. five-dollar bills between 1914 and 1995. Other portraits by Berger from that same sitting are used on the current five-dollar bill design and on the face of the penny. Lincoln’s son Robert later said that this was the best photograph ever taken of his father. Gift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange 98.32.311