Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first image was taken by Alexander Gardner in his Washington, D.C. studio on August 9, 1863. President Lincoln poses with a newspaper identified elsewhere as the
Sunday Morning Chronicle while holding a pair of spectacles in his right hand. The mount's reverse carries Gardner's studio backmark. An image from this same sitting shows a fly resting on the president's right leg, whereas this photograph shows the fly moments earlier pausing midway down the skirt of the president's frock coat before moving over to his leg; a second - and very famous - photograph shows Lincoln and his son Tad perusing a large book or album, the CDV's mount with a Henszey of Philadelphia backmark; finally, an anonymous CDV of a smiling Mary Todd Lincoln completes this grouping.
Solid cards, each with lower corners trimmed to facilitate insertion in a CDV album; some age toning and fading; overall very good condition.
