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TitleThe earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln. This photograph from the Frederick H˙ Meserve Collection is a copy of a daguerreotype believed to have been made in 1846 by N˙ H˙ Shepherd. Later loaned to Ida M˙ Tarbell by Robert T˙ Lin
Date1925
SourceSandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
CreatorSandburg, Carl
CategoryPeople
TypePhotograph
PermissionNorthern Illinois University
Themes|| Lincoln's Biography