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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.88
People
William H. Mumler, American (Boston 1832 - 1884 Boston)
Title
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) (untitled spirit photograph with Abraham Lincoln's shadow)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
carte-de-visite, photograph
Date
1870s
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173769

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Albumen silver print
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
mount: 10.5 x 6.4 cm (4 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.88
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rachel McBride Lindsey, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC, 2017), repr. as fig. 28 on p. 156

Verification Level

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