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There are 130 known photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's features were the despair of every artist who undertook his portrait. The writer saw nearly a dozen, one after another, soon after the first nomination to the presidency, attempt the task.
DatePhotographerLocationTechnique1846 or 1847Nicholas H. ShepherdDaguerreotype, quarter plate [2]October 27, 1854Johan Carl Frederic Polycarpus Von ...Gelatin silver print of a presumed lost ...February 28, 1857Chicago, Illinois [7]Gelatin silver print from the lost ...May 27, 1857Amon T. Joslin- 1846/1847: by Nicholas H. Shepherd
- October 27, 1854: by Johan Carl Frederic Polycarpus Von Schneidau
- February 28, 1857: by Alexander Hessler
- By Roderick M. Cole
- By Unknown Photographer
- May 7, 1858: by Abraham M. Byers
- August 26, 1858: by T. P. Pearson
- September 26, 1858 : Attributed to Christopher S. German.
- October 4, 1859: by Samuel M. Fassett
- February 27, 1860: by Mathew Brady
This daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln. It was reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Shepherd’s Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, which he advertised in the Sangamo Journal, was located in Springfield over the drug s...
The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln. From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, former editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the most influential anti-slavery German newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr. Lincoln in 1853, in Springfield. “He was already a man necessary to know,” says Mr. Schneider. In 1854 Mr. ...
“I have a letter from Mr. Hesler stating that [Lincoln] came in and made arrangements for the sitting, so that the members of the bar could get prints. Lincoln said at the time that he did not know why the boys wanted such a homely face. Joseph Medill went with Mr. Lincoln to have the picture taken. He says that the photographer insisted on smoothi...
“…the photo you have of Abraham Lincoln is a copy of a Daguerreotype, that I made in my gallery in this city [Peoria] during the Lincoln and Douglas campaign. I invited him to my gallery to give me a sitting…and when I had my plate ready, he said to me, ‘I cannot see why all you artists want a likeness of me unless it is because I am the homeliest ...
A Civil War soldier from Parma, Ohio, was the original owner of this portrait, published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on February 12, 1942, from a print in the Anthony L. Maresh collection. Possibly it is a photographic copy of one of two daguerreotypes, both now lost, taken in Ohio.
Formerly in the Lincoln Monument collection at Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Lincoln wore a linen coat on the occasion. The picture is regarded as a good likeness of him as he appeared during the Lincoln Douglas campaign.
“Mr. Magie happened to remain over night at Macomb, at the same hotel with Mr. Lincoln, and the next morning took a walk about town, and upon Mr. Magie’s invitation they stepped into Mr. Pierson’s establishment, and the ambrotype of which this is a copy was the result. Mr. Lincoln, upon entering, looked at the camera as though he was unfamiliar wit...
“In 1858 Lincoln and Douglas had a series of joint debates in this State, and this city was one place of meeting. Mr. Lincoln’s step-mother was making her home with my father and mother at that time. Mr. Lincoln stopped at our house, and as he was going away my mother said to him: “Uncle Abe, I want a picture of you.” He replied, “Well, Harriet, wh...
Lincoln sat for this portrait at the gallery of Cooke and Fassett in Chicago. Cooke wrote in 1865 “Mrs. Lincoln pronounced [it] the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband.”
Mathew Brady’s first photograph of Lincoln, on the day of the Cooper Union speech. Over the following weeks, newspapers and magazines gave full accounts of the event, noting the high spirits of the crowd and the stirring rhetoric of the speaker. Artists for Harper’s Weekly converted Brady’s photograph to a full-page woodcut portrait to illustrate t...
Sep 11, 2020 · The following are galleries of selected images from the last twenty years of Lincoln's life. They include the Library of Congress's earliest photograph of Lincoln, as well as photographs of his immediate family members, photos taken at his inaugurations, and images relating to his assassination and funeral.
Feb 4, 2022 · Abraham Lincoln joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later. In this famous Mathew Brady image—one of six taken of the president that day—Lincoln poses ...
The photograph taken by Abraham M. Byers on May 7, 1858, holds historical significance, capturing Abraham Lincoln during the fervor of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Notably, Lincoln is dressed in a linen coat, a detail that humanizes the soon-to-be president, presenting him as an approachable figure rather than a distant politician.
Aug 1, 2012 · Over 130 photographs of Lincoln exist—here are a few you may not have come across before. The daguerreotype above, taken around 1846, is the earliest known photo of Lincoln. He was 37 years...
Photography figured prominently in Abraham Lincoln’s life. The 200th anniversary of his birth offers a fitting occasion to enjoy treasured portraits from the Library of Congress collections.
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