Record ID:
372868
Accession number:
MA 810.18
Published:
[Springfield, original: 1846, this copy printed: 1912]
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan ca. 1912.
Description:
1 photographic print
Inscriptions/Markings:
Printed below the image: "Abraham Lincoln (Meserve No. 1) The earliest known portrait. Made about 1848, when Mr. Lincoln was in Congress. The original daguerreotype is owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. From a copy in the Collection of Frederick H. Meserve. New York, 1912."
Summary:
Reproduction of Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 1, the original likely taken in Springfield by N. H. Shepherd in 1846.
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