Abraham biography lincoln photo


Danville, illinois.

Abraham biography lincoln photo

  • Springfield, illinois
  • Danville, illinois
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    Image Date Photographer Location Technique Owner Notes 1846 or 1847 Nicholas H.

    Shepherd Springfield, IllinoisDaguerreotype, quarter plate[2]Library of CongressThis daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln.

    It was reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Shepherd's Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, which he advertised in the Sangamo Journal, was located in Springfield over the drug store of J.

    Brookie. Shepherd also studied law at the law office of Lincoln and Herndon.[3]October 27, 1854Johan Carl Frederic Polycarpus Von Schneidau[4]Chicago, IllinoisGelatin silver print of a presumed lost daguerreotype[5]The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln.

    From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, former editor of the Illinoi