Abraham Lincoln,Senate nomination,Hessler,Chicago,1857

Title: [Abraham Lincoln, immediately prior to Senate nomination, Chicago, Illinois]
Creator(s): Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1857 February 28, printed later]
Summary: Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. According to Ostendorf, this portrait by Hessler was copied during Lincoln's campaign and further distributed.
Notes:
Ostendorf, no. 2 (variation)
Meserve, no. 6
Original item from which the print at the Library was made included a label: 'Enlarged copy of original ambrotype photograph of Abraham Lincoln, owned by T.F. Tucker, Sioux Falls, S.D. This photograph was given to Mrs. Emmeline Price by Mrs. Lincoln. Upon the death of Mrs. Price in 1909 the picture came into the possession of her brother, Mr. A.N. Fancher. After the death of Mr. Fancher in 1917, the picture became the property of his widow, Rosalie Fancher. A short time before Mrs. Fancher's death in 1923, she gave this picture to her son-in-law, T.F. Tucker. The ambrotype was made in 1858. Copyright 1929 T.F. Tucker, Sioux Falls.'
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 6-7.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Gelatin silver prints--1900-1960.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2008678332/
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