[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland]

[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland] by Alexander Gardner|Allan Pinkerton|Abraham Lincoln|John Alexander McClernand

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Dimensions

Image: 20 x 18.5 cm (7 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.) Mount: 22.8 x 21.3 cm (9 x 8 3/8 in.) Mount: 34.1 x 27 cm (13 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005

Accession Number

2005.100.1220

Tags

TentsAbraham LincolnMenGeneralsAmerican Civil War

About the Artist

Alexander Gardner|Allan Pinkerton|Abraham Lincoln|John Alexander McClernand

Alexander Gardner was born on 17 October 1821 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and came of age in a culture shaped by radical social thought. Influenced by the cooperative ideals of Robert Owen, Gardner initially apprenticed as a jeweler and harbored dreams of founding a utopian community in America. His encounter with photography changed the course of his life. After seeing Mathew Brady's cele...

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