LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, n.p., n.d. [Washington D.C., 9 August 1863]. 99 x 63 mm. (3 15/16 x 2 7/16 in.) including mount, gold-ruled borders, neatly pasted to blank page (it and facing leaf detached) of an autograph album (see below) , but in good condition. A well-known seated portrait of Lincoln in suit and tie, his left arm resting on a table, holding a newspaper. Signed in ink in the narrow blank portion at the bottom, between the base of the photograph and the gilt-ruled border. See Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose , Dayton, 1985, no. O-70. LINCOLN IN HIS "SUNDAY BEST;" THE HIGHLIGHT OF AN 1865 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM Among the contents of an 1865 album compiled by a Brooklyn resident is the present fine photograph, signed. The photograph was taken in Alexander Gardner's newly established gallery in Washington on Sunday, 9 February 1864. According to Hamilton and Ostendorf, the sitting took place "the day before the official opening of his [Gardner's] gallery. Lincoln had promised to be Gardner's first sitter and chose Sunday for his visit to avoid 'curiosity seekers and other seekers' on his way to the gallery" ( ibid ., p.130). [ With ] JOHN HAY, Personal secretary of Abraham Lincoln . Autograph letter signed ("John Hay A.A.C.") to "Madam" (Mrs. L. A. Jackson of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Washington, D.C., 1 May 1865. 1 page, 12mo, on Executive Mansion stationery, pasted to the page facing the page to which the above photograph is attached, both part of an autograph album. John Hay apparently forwards the carte-de-visite of the President (signed prior to 14 April 1865!) to a young lady who collects autographs: "I send the enclosed as requested by you in your note of the 28th April...." The date of Hay's letter strongly suggests that he may have had a number of cartes, pre-signed by Lincoln, on hand less than a month after Lincoln's death. [Contained in:] Autograph album titled: "Autograph of the Late and PresentPresident, Members of Cabinet and Military and Naval Officers of this Remarkable War," compiled by Mrs. L.A. Jackson of Brooklyn New York, titlepage dated 22 May 1865. 8vo, 193 x 130 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.), 100 pages, 66 of which have signatures, signed cartes-de-visite or letters affixed to rectos only, binding broken. Partial contents (signatures unless otherwise noted): Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Stanton, Welles, Meade, McClellan, W.T. Sherman, Halleck, W.S. Hancock, Burnside, J. Hooker, G.H. Thomas, J. Pope, George Crook, Weitzel, G.K. Warren, Doubleday, R. Anderson, Gibbon, D.G. Farragut, D.D. Porter, J,W. Dahlgren, Worden, J.A. Winston (Captain of the U.S.S. Kearsarge ) and George Armstrong Custer. An unusually good grouping.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, n.p., n.d. [Washington D.C., 9 August 1863]. 99 x 63 mm. (3 15/16 x 2 7/16 in.) including mount, gold-ruled borders, neatly pasted to blank page (it and facing leaf detached) of an autograph album (see below) , but in good condition. A well-known seated portrait of Lincoln in suit and tie, his left arm resting on a table, holding a newspaper. Signed in ink in the narrow blank portion at the bottom, between the base of the photograph and the gilt-ruled border. See Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose , Dayton, 1985, no. O-70. LINCOLN IN HIS "SUNDAY BEST;" THE HIGHLIGHT OF AN 1865 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM Among the contents of an 1865 album compiled by a Brooklyn resident is the present fine photograph, signed. The photograph was taken in Alexander Gardner's newly established gallery in Washington on Sunday, 9 February 1864. According to Hamilton and Ostendorf, the sitting took place "the day before the official opening of his [Gardner's] gallery. Lincoln had promised to be Gardner's first sitter and chose Sunday for his visit to avoid 'curiosity seekers and other seekers' on his way to the gallery" ( ibid ., p.130). [ With ] JOHN HAY, Personal secretary of Abraham Lincoln . Autograph letter signed ("John Hay A.A.C.") to "Madam" (Mrs. L. A. Jackson of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Washington, D.C., 1 May 1865. 1 page, 12mo, on Executive Mansion stationery, pasted to the page facing the page to which the above photograph is attached, both part of an autograph album. John Hay apparently forwards the carte-de-visite of the President (signed prior to 14 April 1865!) to a young lady who collects autographs: "I send the enclosed as requested by you in your note of the 28th April...." The date of Hay's letter strongly suggests that he may have had a number of cartes, pre-signed by Lincoln, on hand less than a month after Lincoln's death. [Contained in:] Autograph album titled: "Autograph of the Late and PresentPresident, Members of Cabinet and Military and Naval Officers of this Remarkable War," compiled by Mrs. L.A. Jackson of Brooklyn New York, titlepage dated 22 May 1865. 8vo, 193 x 130 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.), 100 pages, 66 of which have signatures, signed cartes-de-visite or letters affixed to rectos only, binding broken. Partial contents (signatures unless otherwise noted): Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Stanton, Welles, Meade, McClellan, W.T. Sherman, Halleck, W.S. Hancock, Burnside, J. Hooker, G.H. Thomas, J. Pope, George Crook, Weitzel, G.K. Warren, Doubleday, R. Anderson, Gibbon, D.G. Farragut, D.D. Porter, J,W. Dahlgren, Worden, J.A. Winston (Captain of the U.S.S. Kearsarge ) and George Armstrong Custer. An unusually good grouping.
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