05183ckd a2200805 a 4500 13791096 20250606213142.1 kh bh| cr|||||||||||| 950622s1846 xxunnn u kneng 13791096 7 cbc orignew u ncip 20 y-printpho qw09 2017-10r; qw09 2022-04r LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-861 2004664400 (DLC)dag1997000541/PP LC-DIG-ppmsca-53842 DLC (digital file from original photo) LC-USZC4-2439 DLC (color film copy transparency post-1992) LC-USZ6-2095 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) LC-USZ6-299 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1958 cleaning and restoration?) LC-USZ62-12457 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1958 cleaning and restoration, copy of retouched print) LC-USZ62-4377 DLC (b&w film copy neg. made from old photographic print) DLC DLC DLC gihc DAG no. 1224 Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographer. [Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] [graphic]. [Springfield, Ill., 1846 or 1847] 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype ; plate 12 x 9.5 cm. still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia Digital image computer c rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Digital image online resource cr rdacarrier Title devised by Library staff. 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. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Case: variant of Rinhart 140. Daguerreotype received from donor without case. Case added after 1958 cleaning. Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original photo is too fragile to serve. Ostendorf, no. 1 Meserve, no. 1 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) No known restrictions on publication. Gift; Mary Lincoln Isham; 1937. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 4-5. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 111 & 243. Published in: Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 332. Published in: "Famous People" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009. Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Icons section. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Portrait photographs 1840-1850. gmgpc Daguerreotypes 1840-1850. gmgpc Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 95861318 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print digital file from original photo ppmsca 53842 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53842 digital file from color film copy transparency post-1992 cph 3g02439 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02439 digital file from b&w film copy neg. post-1992 cph 3d02095 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02095 digital file from b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration? cph 3a00289 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a00289 digital file from b&w film copy neg. pre-1992, after 1959 cleaning and restoration, copy of retouched print cph 3a14822 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a14822 digital file from b&w film copy neg. of old photographic printt cph 3a07773 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a07773 Annenberg batch 19 pp/dag ammem pp/minload pp/exh L4105. pp/exh L4580 #217.00.00 pp/flickrlinc-01 pp/diof c-P&P DAG no. 1224 ppsd obj. (Cabinet A)