Remarkable carte de visite portrait of Seth Kinman, the legendary California hunter, frontiersman, and self-styled showman who famously presented President Abraham Lincoln with an elk-horn chair. Kinman is shown in full frontier regalia, holding a long rifle and wearing a fringed buckskin outfit and animal fur cap with tails. The image is captioned below: “Seth Kinman, California Hunter and Trapper, who presented President Lincoln with the Elk-Horn Chair,” and bears the copyright line, “Entered according to Act of Congress by Seth Kinman, in the year 1864.” Verso imprint of Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Washington, D.C. and New York.

One of the most iconic CDVs of the Civil War era, merging celebrity portraiture, political history, and Western folklore.