Daguerreotypes

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• Collection: Daguerreotypes

• Title: [Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]
• Creator(s): Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographer
• Date Created/Published: [Springfield, Ill., 1846 or 1847]
• Medium: 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 12 x 9.5 cm.
• 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)
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-53842 (digital file from original photo) 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 1958 cleaning and restoration?) LC-USZ62-12457 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1958 cleaning and restoration, copy of retouched print) LC-USZ62-4377 (b&w film copy neg. made from old photographic print)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photo is too fragile to serve.
• Call Number: DAG no. 1224 (Cabinet A)
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • 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.
  • Daguerreotype received from donor without case. Case added after 1958 cleaning.
  • 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.
  • Published in: "Famous People" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
  • Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.
  • Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Icons section.
  • Annenberg batch 19
• Subjects:
  • Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
• Format:
  • Daguerreotypes--1840-1850.
  • Portrait photographs--1840-1850.
• Collections:
  • Daguerreotypes
• Part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
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Daguerreotypes

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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-53842 (digital file from original photo) 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 1958 cleaning and restoration?) LC-USZ62-12457 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1958 cleaning and restoration, copy of retouched print) LC-USZ62-4377 (b&w film copy neg. made from old photographic print)
• Call Number: DAG no. 1224 (Cabinet A)
• Medium: 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 12 x 9.5 cm.

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• Call Number: DAG no. 1224 (Cabinet A)
• Medium: 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 12 x 9.5 cm.
• Access Advisory: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photo is too fragile to serve.

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