File:Abraham Lincoln by Nicholas Shepherd, 1846.jpg

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Artist
Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographer.
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Title
[Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]
Description

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.
Date [1846 or 1847]
Medium 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype
Dimensions plate 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
place of creation [Springfield, Ill.]
Notes
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Gift; Mary Lincoln Isham; 1937.
  • Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
  • Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 95861318
  • Call Number: DAG no. 1224
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g02439.
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[Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front (LOC)]

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