A rare and compelling portrait carte de visite of President Abraham Lincoln, captured from life on 6 March 1865, by traveling photographer Henry F. Warren of Waltham, Massachusetts. The lower margin of the mount reads: President Lincoln. Photographed on the Balcony at the White House, 6 March 1865, by H. F. Warren, Waltham. The reverse features a clean, faint period pencil notation identifying it as Meserve No. 93.

This iconic image represents Meserve No. 93 (Ostendorf O-112) and documents Lincoln's final casual photographic sitting from life, taken just two days after his second inauguration and a mere five weeks before his assassination. Warren traveled from Massachusetts to Washington and successfully requested the president to step onto the White House balcony for a brief session. Because Warren was a regional photographer without a massive national distribution network, these cards were only printed in very small, short-run batches out of his Waltham gallery, making first-generation prints with the typeset text block intact on the face quite rare.

The albumen print retains excellent clarity, highlighting the severe, gaunt lines of Lincoln's battle-weary face. The card is untrimmed and represents an extremely rare artifact for advanced collections of Americana.