File:Lincoln O-118 by Garnder, 1865.jpg

English: The last formal pose of Abraham Lincoln
Artist	Alexander Gardner, Washington DC
Title	English: The last formal pose of Abraham Lincoln
Description	English: On Sunday, February 5, 1865, at Gardner's Gallery in Washington DC, Alexander Gardner took several multiple-lens pictures of the President. Before this session ended, Gardner asked the president for one last pose. He moved his camera closer and took a photograph of Lincoln’s head, shoulders, and chest. Mysteriously the glass plate negative cracked. Gardner carefully took it to his dark room and was able to make one print, with an ominous crack across Lincoln’s face, before it broke completely and was discarded. This print, known as O-118, still exists to this day. Over the years many people have associated this crack with a symbolic foretelling of the assassin’s bullet that awaited Lincoln 10 weeks later.
Date	5 February 1865 date QS:P571,+1865-02-05T00:00:00Z/11
Medium	photograph medium QS:P186,Q125191
Notes	O-118, M-100
Source/Photographer	civilwarinvirginia
Other versions	[1] [2] http://www.physical-lincoln.com/exposure/o118

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