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TITLE:  [Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president. Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, June 3, 1860]

CALL NUMBER:  LOT 5908 [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-19200 (digital file from original photograph)
LC-USZ62-15303 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  "Not long after Lincoln's nomination [for president], a Chicago reporter visited his home and noticed a framed photograph over the sofa. Likely it was one of the Hesler poses ... Observed the nominee: 'That picture gives a very fair representation of my homely face.'" (Source: Ostendorf, p. 48)

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print ; oval 6 x 5 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [Springfield, Ill., 1860]

CREATOR:

Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, photographer.

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff.

Ostendorf, no. 28

Meserve, no. 28

Gift; Louis M. Rabinowitz; 1952 March 27.

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 48.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860.
Photographic prints 1860.

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 original item) ppmsca 19200 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19200
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a17550 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a17550

CONTROL #:  2008680253



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