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Abraham Lincoln


In the afternoon of February 9, 1864, President Lincoln, escorted by artist Francis B. Carpenter, walked more than a mile to Mathew Brady’s Washington studio, where he sat for several photographs, including this profile view, which was later used on the Lincoln-head penny. Another view taken by Brady’s cameraman, Anthony Berger, became the model for the five dollar bill.


Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844–1883)
Collodion glass-plate negative, 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 

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