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Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon
Leonard S. Marcus
Illustrator: photographs
Ages: 9+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30348-8
Keywords: History-United States. Presidents, Civil War-United States, photography, Washington D.C., Mary Todd Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, Mathew Brady, Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Lincoln's media-savvy side is revealed in a story focusing on the 19th-century photographers and painter who helped create his image. Color inserts. Archival images and photographs. Time lines.