Synonyms ←  PhysLinc  A58h1  → ←  Ostendorf  8  → ←  Meserve  10  → ←  Meserve  11  → ←  Kunhardt  AL.1858.4  → ←  Internal  A58hz  → The Image Photographer:  Pearson Sitting date: 1858-08-26 Location: Macomb, IL Technique: Ambrotype Books Hamilton '63 Pages 264, 17a, 360d Tarbell '96 Page 65 Book Notes Mellon '79 [p 30] [[Solio print]] of the lost [[ambrotype]] made by T.P. [[Pearson]], in [[Macomb]], Illinois, August 26, 1858. Hamilton '63 [[Ambrotype]] by T.P. [[Pearson]], [[Macomb]], Thursday, August 26, 1858. Hamilton '63 [[Ambrotype]] by T.P. [[Pearson]], [[Macomb]], Thursday, August 26, 1858. Collections cited in Books Mellon '79 [p 31] Mellon Collection.

Library of Congress LC-USZ62-132820-3c32820u mirror-show. Grainy. obs2|Cheek mole|seems large. b&w film copy negative. 1 photographic print. 3287 x 4096       Library of Congress LC-USZ62-17403-3a19595u b&w film copy neg. 1199 x 1536       Library of Congress LC-USZ62-2277-3a05991u loc-thin mirror-show b&w film copy negative. 1050 x 1536       Library of Congress alternation of LC-USZ62-2277-3a05991u loc-widened mirror-show. obs2|Shoulders|downsloping b&w film copy negative. 1142 x 1536

Is this picture's ugliness the reason Ostendorf does not enlarge it to full-page size?

From Tarbell '96 [p 65]:

From a photograph loaned by W. J. Franklin of Macomb, Illinois, and taken in 1866 from an ambrotype made in 1858 in Macomb. This portrait figures in the collection in the Lincoln Home at Springfield, Illinois, and on the back of the photograph is the following inscription: "This likeness of Abraham Lincoln is a faithful copy of an original ambrotype, now in possession of James K. Magic. It was taken August 25, 1858, by Mr. T. P. Pierson, at Macomb, in this State, and is believed to be of anterior date to any other likeness of Mr. Lincoln ever brought before the public. Mr. Magie happened to remain over night at Macomb, at the same hotel with Mr. Lincoln, and the next morning took a walk about town, and upon Mr. Magie's invitation they stepped into Mr. Pierson's establishment, and the ambrotype of which this is a copy was the result. Mr. Lincoln, upon entering, looked at the camera as though he was unfamiliar with such an instrument, and then remarked: 'Well, do you want to take a shot at me with that thing?' He was shown to a glass, where he was told to 'fix up,' but declined, saying it would not be much of a likeness if he fixed up any. The old neighbors and acquaintances of Mr. Lincoln in Illinois, upon seeing this picture, are apt to exclaim: 'There! that's the best likeness of Mr. Lincoln that I ever saw!' The dress he wore in this picture is the same in which he made his famous canvass with Senator Douglas." This inscription was written by J. C. Power, now dead, but for many years custodian of the Lincoln monument in Springfield.