BIB_ID
372868
Accession number
MA 810.18
Creator
Shepherd, N. H., 19th cent., photographer.
Published
[Springfield, original: 1846, this copy printed: 1912]
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan ca. 1912.
Description
1 photographic print
Inscriptions/Markings
Printed below the image: "Abraham Lincoln (Meserve No. 1) The earliest known portrait. Made about 1848, when Mr. Lincoln was in Congress. The original daguerreotype is owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. From a copy in the Collection of Frederick H. Meserve. New York, 1912."
Summary
Reproduction of Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 1, the original likely taken in Springfield by N. H. Shepherd in 1846.
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