[Carte de visite Photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln].

After an 1863 photograph by Mathew Brady Studio

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Carte de visite half-lenth portrait photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, made by Boston photographer Edward L. Allen. The carte de visite is after an original photograph by the studio of Mathew Brady, possibly taken in late 1863. It depicts her in mourning attire and wearing black jewelry, grieving for her son Willie who died in February 1862. “Willie’s death precipitated his mother’s rapid psychological decline, which would become almost clinical after the president’s assassination in April 1865.”¹

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