The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

Today, we're terrified that photographs have been manipulated by AI. Before that it was deepfakes, and Photoshop, and predating that we worried that images had been airbrushed. But images have ...

Photographic image (interpositive) of President Abraham Lincoln, created circa 1895-1900 by George B. Ayres, using Alexander Hesler’s original 1860 collodion negative. Manila envelope pen ...

America’s greatest president had moral vision, strategic genius, and astounding eloquence.