Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait [ambrotype], with TLS. [1858 ca., March 6, 1944]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0629-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1858 ca.
Title
Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait [ambrotype], with TLS. [1858 ca., March 6, 1944]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25.4 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Pre-war picture [1850's ca.] of a young Lincoln. Inscription in Meserve's handwriting on verso: "Abraham Lincoln (Meserve No 12). Copied Mch 14 1944 from an 8 x 10 glass framed photograph (through the glass) owned by Mr. Kerr Rainsford with his kind permission. His photograph seemed to be an enlargment of a copy of the ambrotype (not reversed). F. H. Meserve."
See GLC 5111.01.0628--.0631.

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