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Lot 271
Sale 1250 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$2,500 -
3,500
Price Realized
$5,355
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Lot Description
[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)]. BERGER, Anthony, photographer. Albumen photograph of Abraham Lincoln. [Washington, DC: Mathew Brady Gallery, 1864].
6 x 8 in. (sight) albumen photograph on original cardstock mount with credit lower left to "Brady & Co.," matted and framed, 13 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (even toning to print; mount with areas of toning and tirmmed edges). The negative was made in Brady's Washington studio, 9 February 1864, but the photographer that day was Anthony Berger, and this is one of four portraits taken at the sitting [Ostendorf, O-92].
Provenance: Swann Auction Galleries, 1994 (consignor relates).