Abraham Lincoln, 1864
     This image of Lincoln was taken a few days before his fifty-fifth birthday by Anthony Berger, Mathew Brady's partner. Lincoln's son, Robert, considered it to be "the most satisfactory likeness" of his father; an engraved version of it appears on the five-dollar bill.  
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

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