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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.
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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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