Synonyms ←  PhysLinc  A58e2  → ←  Ostendorf  5  → ←  Meserve  7  → ←  Internal  A58eg2  → The Image Photographer:  Byers Sitting date: 1858-05-07 Location: Beardstown, IL Technique: Ambrotype Books Hamilton '63 Page 14 Book Notes Ostendorf '98 [[Ambrotype]] by Abraham M. [[Byers]], [[Beardstown]], Friday, May 7, 1858.

Tarbell '95 Page 495 See URL note below.

Byers actually took two ambrotypes of Lincoln during this sitting. He kept one (which now belongs to the University of Nebraska) and the other was published by Ida Tarbell in McClure's Magazine in 1895. They are so similar that Ostendorf '98 [p 14] classifies them as a single pose.