Note: Please see Day 3 (October 11) of the sale that features rare material relating to the Gettysburg Address.

Salt print bust portrait of Robert Todd Lincoln. Unmarked. 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. cardstock mount. Pencil inscription reading “Lincoln / Robert Todd Lincoln.” Verso features a salt print portrait of classmate Channing Lilly, with period pencil identification. 

A handsome albumen studio portrait of a young Robert Todd Lincoln. Lincoln’s face is angled away from the camera, his countenance serious and dignified despite his youth. Lincoln is dressed smartly in a dark jacket, which contrasts sharply with the white of his collared shirt and cravat. The portrait is taken from the Harvard Class of 1864 yearbook. 

Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), firstborn child of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, had an illustrious political career. After he graduated from Harvard, R.T. Lincoln practiced law in Chicago before serving under President James Garfield and Chester Arthur as Secretary of War (1881-85) and later as Minister to Great Britain (1889-92). The only Lincoln child to live into adulthood, he died on 26 July 1926. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. 

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