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Gilder Lehrman Document Number: GLC03950

Title: Tintype photograph taken by Cole in 1858, in later case; campaign image

Author: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

Year: 1859

Place: [Peoria?]

Type of document: Photograph

Description: Tintype, apparently based on Ostendorf 14 (the tintype reverses the image). Hamilton & Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, p. 28 suggests that Roderick M. Cole of Peoria made the image about 1858. (See GLC 590.)

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