Abraham Lincoln,Samuel Montague Fassett,Cooke,gallery,portrait,likeness,SM,1859

Title: [Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right]
Creator(s): Fassett, S. M. (Samuel Montague), photographer
Date Created/Published: [1859 Oct. 4, printed later]
Notes:
Ostendorf, no. 16
Meserve, no. 8
Title devised by Library staff.
The Library's copy negative LC-USZ62-11492 was made from a print in the collection of Mrs. Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
'Lincoln posed for this portrait at the gallery of Cooke and Fassett in Chicago, and Cooke, who had asked for the sitting, wrote on April 25, 1865, to his partner: 'Mrs. Lincoln pronounced [it] the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband.' The negative of this rare photograph was destroyed in the Chicago fire.' (Source: Ostendorf, p. 30)
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 30.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Gelatin silver prints--1900-1960.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2009630657/
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