Photograph #A58j1 of Abraham Lincoln

Synonyms

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The Image

Photographer:	Jackson
Sitting date:	1858-10-01
Location:	Pittsfield, IL
Technique:	Ambrotype

Books

Hamilton '63	Pages 22, 23, 361b
Tarbell '96	Page 209

Book Notes

Mellon '79 [p 44]

Gelatin silver print of the original [[ambrotype]] made by Calvin [[Jackson]], in [[Pittsfield]], Illinois, October 1, 1858.

Hamilton '63

[[Ambrotype]] by Calvin [[Jackson]], [[Pittsfield]], Friday, October 1, 1858.

Collections cited in Books

Mellon '79 [p 45]

Mellon Collection.

Library of Congress LC-USZ62-16377-3a18600u
obs2\|Eyelid mass\|seen in right upper lid, near lateral margin of iris. Heaped-up mass in medial canthus of right eye. Midline-philtrum lesions is hinted, as is left commissural lesion. b&w film copy negative. 1 photographic print: gelatin silver.	4063 x 5057

Library of Congress LC-USZ6-2446 3g13901
This is the original quarter-plate ambrotype. Available in color reproduction, too. Appears that someone tried to clean the plate and ruined it.	4735 x 5900

Hamilton '63 [p 361] / Ostendorf '98 [p 383] says that (a) the original of this image is "very dark, giving Lincoln's complexion a black and leathery appearance" and (b) a second exposure was taken at the same time as this one, but was destroyed.