CDV on cardstock mount (some spotting and toning, bent upper right corner to print; soiling, wear, and clipping to mount edges and corners). Credited to Charles D. Fredricks & Co. on verso. Copyright statement beneath portrait on mount recto. Lincoln is shown wearing a round-tipped collar, which is one way this portrait differs from any other. Catalogued in Hamilton and Ostendorf as [O-55] or variant.

This image is called a "mystery portrait" in Hamilton and Ostendorf's Lincoln in Photographs, as it is unclear exactly who captured the portrait. There are other copies bearing imprints of Germon, McClees, and, like this one, Fredricks.