Lincoln” is featured to the right and below the image. Oval photo 6 x 8 inches affixed to original preprinted mount of 11 x 14 inches. Philadelphia: Charles Desilver Publisher entered by G. On April 14, 1865, a 12 year old Tad went to Grover’s Theatre to see the play Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. After Anthony Berger taken at Mathew Brady’s studio 9 February 1864. Tad Lincoln 1853-1871 the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Brady / Desilver A braham Lincoln as a Father. The youngest Lincoln son was named after Abraham Lincolns father, Thomas, but Tads nickname stemmed from his fathers belief that he resembled a tadpole. (Abraham & Tad Lincoln) Albumen Photograph. Excellent clean and bright very light and small marginal stains are far away from the image and printing. He would, alongside his parents and older brother, soon move from Springfield, Illinois to the White House in Washington D.C. In the fall of 1860, seven-year-old Tad Lincoln learned that his father had been elected president. This father/son image is more common at the carte-de-visite size, but scarce in this larger, more impressive, size. Library of Congress Tad Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln’s youngest son. The mild “rippling”of the mount is usual, caused by the large albumen which is produced through a collodion wet plate process. Desilver also produced another memorial photograph of Lincoln and his boys on the porch of their Springfield home by borrowing John Whipple’s 1860 glass plate.
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He would burst into cabinet meetings to climb all over his father. Despite the fact that he was poorly behaved, not once did his father discipline him. Tad hated schooling and while in the White House he defeated every tutor which his parents hired. This image was used most effectively after the assassination, just as Philadelphia publisher and bookseller Desilver was doing here with the permission of Brady. The youngest Lincoln was famed for his wild nature.
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Photograph showing portrait of Tad Lincoln, standing, wearing a military-style. Title: Tad Lincoln at age seven Names: Hamilton, Charles, 1913-1996 (Author): Ostendorf, Lloyd (Author) Collection. Brady sensed a tender moment and asked them to stay still while he took the image. 1 photographic print : albumen, on carte de visite mount 10 x 6 cm. During a lull when a glass plate was being placed into the camera, father and son began leafing through a carte-de-visite photo album on the table next to them. He was born with a form of cleft lip and palate that caused him speech problems throughout his life. 20, 1862, at the age of eleven, and Tad died of heart failure in 1870 at the age of eighteen. He was nicknamed Tad by his father, who found him as wriggly as a tadpole when he was a baby.
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President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.
TAD LINCOLN SERIES
Lincoln and his son Thomas (“Tad”) were in Brady’s studio for a series of photographs. He was the 4th and youngest son of the 16th U.S. An endearing albumen photograph of Abraham and Tad Lincoln.