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Abraham Lincoln (Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 10) [photograph].

Record ID: 
372869
Accession number: 
MA 810.19
Published: 
[Macomb, Ill., original: 1858, 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. 10) The ambrotype said to have been made in Macomb, Illinois, August 27, 1858, and last owned by Mr. Richard Watson Gilder. It was destroyed by fire in 1888. From a copy in the Collection of Frederick H. Meserve. New York, 1912."

Summary: 

Reproduction of Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 10.

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Classification: 
Photograph
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts