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TITLE:  [Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

CALL NUMBER:  DAG no. 1223 (Cabinet A)

Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photo is too fragile to serve.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-6189 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ6-2094 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ6-300 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration?)
LC-USZ62-12458 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:  1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1846 or 1847]

CREATOR:

Shepherd, Nicolas H., photographer.

NOTES:

Attribution to Nicolas H. Shepherd based on similarity to daguerreotype of Lincoln received as a pair with this portrait.

Hallmark: Rinhart 46.

Case: variant of Rinhart 219.

Title devised by Library staff.

Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 332.

Gift; Mary Lincoln Isham; 1937.

Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Mary Todd,--1818-1882.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1840-1860.
Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.

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) cph 3g06189 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06189
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3d02094 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02094
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration?) cph 3a00290 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a00290
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a52679 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3s52679

CONTROL #:  2004664342


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