Abraham Lincoln,Candidate for President,Cooper Union Address,New York City,1860

Title: [Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, three-quarter length portrait, before delivering his Cooper Union address in New York City] / Brady, N.Y.
Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1860 February 27 [printed later]
Summary: Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly right.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 51.
Ostendorf, no. 17
Meserve, no. 20
Reference copy in PRES FILE - Lincoln, Abraham Portraits Meserve no. 20.
An original carte de visite with the Cooper Union portrait is in: Civil War photograph album, James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html
'...the most famous of the beardless poses, taken by Mathew B. Brady on Monday morning, February 27, 1860, only a few hours before Lincoln delivered his Cooper Union address. That speech and this portrait, Lincoln afterwards said, put him in the White House.' (Source: Ostendorf, p. 34-5)
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 34-5.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Gelatin silver prints--1900-1960.
Portrait photographs--1860.
Bookmark /98504529/
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