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Title
Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, 1861
Date Created and/or Issued
1861
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, 1861. He is shown from the upper torso to the head and is looking squarely at the camera. He is wearing a dark suit, dark vest, white shirt, and dark bowtie. His thin, rectangular face is framed by a dark beard, and his dark hair is parted at right. He has large ears and thick eyebrows.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 18 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13728
USC-1-1-1-13883 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11162
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13728
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11162.jpg
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham
Portraits--Lincoln, Abraham
Presidents
Time Period
1861
Place
California
USA
Source
11162 [Accession number]
CHS-11162 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: 1-90-354 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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