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[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, October 11, 1858]
Summary
Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln while he was in Monmouth, Illinois, to give a speech and two days before his sixth debate with Stephen A. Douglas during their campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat. Lincoln had the photograph taken to give to Mrs. Harriet Chapman, granddaughter of Sarah Bush Lincoln, with whom he had stayed during the fourth debate. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 21)
Title devised by cataloger.
Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 48.
Ostendorf, no. 11
Meserve, no. 13
Location of original photo: The original ambrotype is at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 216.
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