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Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 53
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863. Nine different photographs are known to have been made at this time, the first made by Alexander and James Gardner, who had formerly been employed by Mathew B. Brady.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 56
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 8, 1863. The President is shown with his secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, who is standing.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 90
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Detail of an 8" x 10" photograph made by Alexander Gardner of the second inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1865. The President is reading from his manuscript. Mr. Nicolay, one of his secretaries, is standing behind the empty chair. Vice President Johnson's face is hidden by the hat held in his left hand.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 99
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 54
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 60
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 15, 1863. This portrait, differing slightly from Number 59, is little known.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 94
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 100
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on Monday, April 10, 1865. Mr. Truman H. Bartlett, the author and sculptor, acquired it from Mr. Gardner in 1874, who then stated that only one print was made from the large broken negative before it was considered valueless and destroyed, and that it was the last photograph made on that day. No later photographs were made of the Presid...
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 49
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 95
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865, with the second son Thomas (Tad).
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 96
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865, similar to Number 95, with a screen, showing the unfinished Washington Monument and the Potomac River, used as a background.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 97
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865. The President is holding his glasses in his right hand.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 105
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 89
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)Detail from an 8" x 10" photograph made by Alexander Gardner of the second inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1865. The President is sitting without a hat at the left of the reading desk. On his right is Andrew Johnson, the Vice President. The Justices of the Supreme Court are at the right of the reading desk.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 98
Image | 1865 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on April 10, 1865.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 50
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 51
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 52
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 55
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863, the day before the new gallery of the Gardner Brothers was opened to the public.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 57
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 15, 1863, four days before the speech at Gettysburg. Here, as in Number 58, the envelope containing Senator Everett's speech may be seen on the table.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 58
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 15, 1863, four days before the speech at Gettysburg. Mr. Noah Brooks in Washington in Lincoln's Time stated that Senator Edward Everett's oration to be delivered at Gettysburg was in an envelope, which may be seen on the table.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 59
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 15, 1863. This portrait has been widely published and is perhaps the best-known full-face portrait of the President.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 61
Image | 1863 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)A photograph made by Alexander Gardner on November 8, 1863.