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Attractive matte-finish 8.5 x 10.5 mounted photograph of President Abraham Lincoln in profile as taken by Anthony Berger at Brady's studio on February 9, 1864, and subsequently used by sculptor Victor David Brenner to create the image of Lincoln that appears on the penny. Signed on the reverse of the mount by Frederick H. Meserve, "To be returned to F. H. Meserve, 240 Church St., New York," and also stamped as from Meserve's "Collection of Americana." In very good to fine condition, with editorial retouching and moderately heavy silvering.
Frederick H. Meserve (1865–1962) was a world-renowned collector of Lincoln and Civil War-era photography, remembered for compiling a catalog of known Lincoln images. Much of Meserve's collection of Lincolniana is now held by Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
