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Photo shows Abraham Lincoln in an image that was widely reproduced on presidential campaign ribbins in 1860. Lincoln reportedly liked the photograph and often signed prints for admirers. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 29)

Original photograph (an ambrotype?) probably by Roderick M. Cole, Peoria, Illinois, or Preston Butler of Springfield, Illinois.

The Library's tintype is a copy of the original photo and 'reversed' from the view in the original ambrotype. Case has a decorative diamond surrounded by scrolls. Label on case: 775. Lambert sale, item 775. (The William H. Lambert sale of Lincolniana by the Anderson Auction Company, 1914.)

Case: Leather; geometric design.

Ostendorf, no. 14

Meserve, no. 14

Gift, A. Conger Goodyear, 1965.

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 28-29.

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01/01/1858
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