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English: Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographer.

[Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]
[Springfield, Ill., 1846 or 1847]
1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
Notes:
 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)
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.
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 4-5.
Title devised by Library staff.
Gift; Mary Lincoln Isham; 1937.
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
 Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865.
Format: Portrait photographs--1840-1850.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1850.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 95861318
Persistent URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02439

Call Number: DAG no. 1224
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