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Gardner, Alexander
American (b. Scotland, 1821-1882)

TITLE ON OBJECT: President Lincoln on Battle Field of Antietam
BOOK TITLE: --Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War.-- vol. I, 1866.

October 1862 / print ca. 1866
albumen print
17.1 x 22.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEGS: 21522 23219
81:0004:0023

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13960-23
NON-GEH NUMBER: Plate 23

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"The Art of Early Photography", Canada, ONT, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1965.//
"Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 28 - September 17, 1989. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: mount-recto (letterpress) "Alex. Gardner, Photographer. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. Gardner, in the clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. 511 Seventh Street, Washington. President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam. No. 23. October, 1862."

NOTES: Catalogued 5/88, DZ. Same image as 81:2858:23.

SUBJECTS:
personage, president / Lincoln, Abraham
portrait, group
people, military

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