Collections: Postage Stamps and the Penny
President Abraham Lincoln, February 9, 1864, taken by Anthony Berger, Mathew Brady Studio, National Archives photo no. 111-B-6340 (Brady Collection) (Above left and right).
The profile from the February 9, 1864, sitting was selected in 1909 as the design concept for the penny. The coin was sculpted by Victor D. Brenner, who had impressed President Theodore Roosevelt with his artistic talents.
A postage stamp using the same profile photograph of Lincoln was produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the U.S. Post Office Department as part of the Prominent Americans Series issued from 1965 to 1981.
In 1984, the ever-popular view of Abraham Lincoln sitting and reading to his son Tad, who leans over the arm of the chair, was rendered by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing into a 20-cent postage stamp celebrating literacy.
Clockwise from bottom left to right:
- Penny, 1909
- Block of Four Postage Stamps, 4c Abraham Lincoln with Log Cabin, Prominent Americans Series, 1965-1981
- Block of Four Postage Stamps, 20c Abraham Lincoln Reading to Son, Tad, A Nation of Readers Series, 1984
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