Mary Todd Lincoln, 1861

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Medium

albumen print (carte-de-visite)

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 8.6 × 5.4 cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
mount: 10.15 × 6.2 cm (4 × 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2019.12.2

Artists / Makers

Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries (artist) American, 1860 - 1875

E. & H.T. Anthony (publisher) American, 1862 - 1902

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower center on mount printed in black ink: MRS. LINCOLN. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by M.B. Brady. In the / Clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of New York; on verso, center printed in black ink: Published by / E. ANTHONY. / 501 Broadway, N.Y. / Manufacturer / of / Photographic / Albums. / From / Photographic Negative / in / BRADY'S / National Portrait Gallery. / Snyder, Black & Sturn, N.Y.; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite underlined: 150

Provenance

(Thomas Harris, New York); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Harris, Thomas