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Image Title: Abraham Lincoln, Head-And-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Right, 1864

Creator: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, photographer

Date: 1864 Jan. 8, printed later

Notes: "Lincoln liked this photograph, taken with a multiple-lens camera by Mathew B. Brady, Washington, D.C., Friday, January 8, 1864. He said of it: 'I don't know that I have any favorite portrati of myself; but I have thought that if I looked like any of the likenesses of me that have been taken, I look most like that one.'" (Source: Ostendorf, p. 170)

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865

Original Media: Photograph

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