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| Print Key:
| National Archives 111-B-5726
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| 1219 x 1540 (for detailed view)
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| Observations:
| Did Berger's retouching make Tad's head thinner?
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| Version 4: Digital Print of Hardcopy
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| Print Key:
| Library of Congress LC-USZ62-8117-3a10735r
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| MaxPixels:
| 393 x 640
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| Print: Mellon p152
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| Caption:
| (p153) Contemporary albumen print ... from the lost negative (believed to have been a multiple-image sterographic plate) made by Anthony Berger at mathew Brady's gallery, in Washington, DC, February 9, 1864.
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| Collection:
| Ostendorf Collection
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| Print: Mellon p199
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| Caption:
| (p198) Gelatin silver print of a carte-de-visite that is the only known unvignetted likeness of the pose made by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady's gallery, in Washington, DC, February 9, 1864.
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| Collection:
| Ostendorf Collection
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| Observations:
| Though "unvignetted," the unnatural shadow inferior to Tad's left nostril is still present.
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- There is a typographical error in ostendorfA on page 89, where two variants of photograph O-55 are both incorrectly labelled as "O-93."
- Meserve #40 and #41 are alterations of the basic photograph.
- "Among all of the one hundred or more exposure [sic] made by various photographers this likeness of the spectacled Lincoln and his son Tad is the closest exhibit we have of what might be called a candid shot. Although it is true both father and son knew they were to be photographed, they were not posed by the photographer but fell naturally into the positions they occupied." (Lincoln Lore #1268, July 27, 1953)
