On this date in 1863, President Lincoln walked from the White House to Alexander Gardner’s new photography studio at 7th and D Streets and posed for a series of pictures, including this one.
Lincoln had agreed to be his first customer.
Gardner (above, left), a recent Scottish immigrant and former employee of photographer Mathew Brady, had recently achieve…
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