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TITLE: [Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]
CALL NUMBER: DAG no. 1224 (Cabinet A)
Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photo is too fragile to serve.
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-2439 (color film copy transparency post-1992)
LC-USZ6-2095 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ6-299 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration?)
LC-USZ62-12457 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration, copy of retouched print)
LC-USZ62-4377 (b&w film copy neg. made from old photographic print)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: This daguerreotype is the earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at age 37 when he was a frontier lawyer in Springfield and Congressman-elect from Illinois. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 4)
MEDIUM: 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [Springfield, Ill., 1846 or 1847]
CREATOR:
Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographer.
NOTES:
Attributed to Nicholas H. Shepherd, based on the recollections of Gibson W. Harris, a law student in Lincoln's office from 1845 to 1847. (Source: Gibson William Harris, "My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," Women's Home Companion (November 1903), 9-11.) Robert Lincoln, son of the President, thought the photo was made in either St. Louis or Washington during his father's term in Congress.
Hallmark: Rinhart 46.
Case: variant of Rinhart 140.
Title devised by Library staff.
Ostendorf, no. 1
Meserve, no. 1
Gift; Mary Lincoln Isham; 1937.
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 4-5.
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 111 & 243.
Published in: Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 332.
Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.
SUBJECTS:
FORMAT:
Portrait photographs 1840-1850.
Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
PART OF: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from color film copy transparency post-1992) cph 3g02439 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02439
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3d02095 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02095
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration?) cph 3a00289 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a00289
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration, copy of retouched print) cph 3a14822 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a14822
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. of old photographic printt) cph 3a07773 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a07773
CONTROL #: 2004664400
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