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[Presidential Campaign Medal with Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson]

After Thomas Le Mere American
Photography Studio Brady & Co. American
1864
Not on view
The Lincoln tintype in this campaign medal is a reversed copy of a portrait print (Ostendorf O-92) made on February 9, 1864 by Thomas LeMere, an operator for Mathew B. Brady in his Washington, D.C. studio. The Johnson tintype is a copy of a portrait by an unknown maker. The unknown maker of the medal likely produced the object on a mass scale for the Republican Party to be given away or sold at their headquarters throughout the United States.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Presidential Campaign Medal with Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson]
  • Maker: Unknown
  • Artist: After Thomas Le Mere (American, active 1860s)
  • Photography Studio: Brady & Co. (American, active 1840s–1880s)
  • Date: 1864
  • Medium: Tintype
  • Dimensions: Image: 1.6 cm (5/8 in.), diameter
    Overall: 2.5 cm (1 in.), diameter
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Overbrook Foundation Gift, 2012
  • Object Number: 2012.13
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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