Mary Todd Lincoln
Vintage Photograph
$250.00 - Product is currently out of stock.
Mary Todd Lincoln; née Mary Ann Todd (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882), wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and as such the First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865. She dropped the name Ann after her younger sister, Ann Todd (Clark), was born, and did not use the name Todd after marrying. She supported her husband throughout his presidency. She witnessed his fatal shooting when they were together in the President's Box at Ford's Theatre on Tenth Street in Washington.
Frederick Hill Meserve (1865-1962), New York textile executive and book lover is considered America's first great photograph collector and a premier authority on Linconiania. Today the collection that Meserve started five generations ago constitutes one of the nation's greatest archives of Civil War era and Abraham Lincoln photographs.
Silver gelatin photograph; printed by Meserve (circa 1916). 2.25 x 3.25 inches. Verso features original Merserve ink stamping credit.
Housed in a paper matte (finished size: 3 x 4.5 inches); may be removed easily, if desired. Face features original notations in graphite written in Meserve's hand: "Mrs. Lincoln."
Also includes a facsimile copy of an original hand-written note (ANS) by Merseve to a young collector, April 25, 1916.
In fine condition.
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