Albumen print carte-de-visite, three-quarters length standing portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady, with "E. Anthony / 501 Broadway / New York / from / ... Brady's / National Portrait Gallery" to verso, minor oxidization. Taken by Brady the morning of Lincoln's famous Cooper Union Address, this is the "most famous of the beardless poses ... That speech and this portrait, Lincoln afterwards said, put him in the White House" (Hamilton & Ostendorf O-17).
Albumen print carte-de-visite, three-quarters length standing portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady, with "E. Anthony / 501 Broadway / New York / from / ... Brady's / National Portrait Gallery" to verso, minor oxidization. Taken by Brady the morning of Lincoln's famous Cooper Union Address, this is the "most famous of the beardless poses ... That speech and this portrait, Lincoln afterwards said, put him in the White House" (Hamilton & Ostendorf O-17).
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