Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Tintype photograph taken by Cole in 1858, in later case; campaign image

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GLC#
GLC03950
Type
Images
Date
1859
Author/Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Title
Tintype photograph taken by Cole in 1858, in later case; campaign image
Place Written
[Peoria?]
Pagination
1 cased image Height: 6.3 cm, Width: 5 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson Lincoln

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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