The Most Famous Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

The photographs that shaped how the world pictures Abraham Lincoln, from a Springfield daguerreotype taken before he went to Congress to the last portraits made in March 1865. Each one earned its place by being reproduced, studied or argued over: a campaign portrait, a sitting that ended up on money, a rare picture taken outdoors at a battlefield or a ceremony. They run in the order they were taken, so the gallery doubles as a record of how the clean-shaven prairie lawyer became the bearded, worn-down wartime president, and each caption names the photographer, the place and the date where the record shows them.