Speed wrote a letter to Lincoln in February 1842 explaining that he had consummated his marriage to Fanny Henning. About a week later, Lincoln replied: “I opened the letter with intense anxiety and ...

One hand rests on a lanky knee. The face is of the bearded Lincoln, the one familiar to us from the profile on our pennies and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and Alexander Gardner’s 1865 “cracked ...

Over the years, Lincoln formed a bond with photographer Alexander Gardner and commissioned him to take pictures of more than just himself. Gardner took pictures of Lincoln on seven different occasions ...

And, aside from gaining a beard, Lincoln did not escape. Around 1865, his head from Berger's 1864 photo was flipped and stitched onto the body of an 1852 engraving by Alexander Ritchie.

During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and presented one of the copies to a man severely in… ...

Lincoln’s celebrity was on the upswing when he arrived on Sept. 30, 1858, in Pittsfield, about 110 miles northwest of St. Louis.

Photography was still relatively new in 1861 as the Civil War began, but when America’s bloodiest conflict ended four years later, it had become possibly the most photographed event of the 19th ...

An old claim about a photo purported to be the earliest photographic image of Abraham Lincoln recently has reappeared on social media. "The earliest known photo of Abraham Lincoln, 1840," read the ...

The times of Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Reagan are chronicled in recent history books via a Catholic lens. (photo: Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart; portrait of Abraham ...

There, he kept up to date with developments in photography technology and took pictures of several prominent Americans. In 1860, Brady even took a photo of a beardless Abraham Lincoln months before ...