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Photograph of Abraham Lincoln in 1858
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Ostendorf
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Meserve
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The Image
Photographer:  uncertain/q
Sitting date: 1858/q
Location: Illinois/q
Technique: Ambrotype/q
Books
Hamilton '63 Pages 25, 362b
Book Notes
Mellon '79 [p 30]
Gelatin silver print of a lost probable [[ambrotype]] made by an [[unknown photographer]], probably in Illinois, about 1858.
[[Photograph]], cameraman, date, and place unknown. Probably 1858.
Original was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Feb. 12, 1942 from a print in the Marish collection.
Collections cited in Books
Mellon '79 [p 33]
Mellon Collection.
      

Because the sidedness is correct, unlikely this is print of ambrotype.

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