Abraham Lincoln, oval bust portrait [ambrotype] with ANS. [1858 ca., March 14, 1944]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0630-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1858 ca.
Title
Abraham Lincoln, oval bust portrait [ambrotype] with ANS. [1858 ca., March 14, 1944]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 17.8 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Pre-war picture [1850's ca.] of a yound Lincoln. Accompanied by folder with Meserve's notes: "Meserve No 12. Copied from an 8 x 10 photograph (framed - through the glass) owned by Mr. Kerr Rainsford with his kind permission. His photographed appeared to be an enlargment, doubtless made from a photograph of the original ambrotype. It was not reversed. This 8 x 10 negative has been printed to show the face as in a photograph instead of an ambrotype by reversing it. This print is, I think, better & clearer than any I have seen. F. H. Meserve. N.Y. Mch 14, 1944." Inscription on recto: "reversed." Inscription on verso: "12 reversed."
See GLC 5111.01.0628, .0629, and .0631.

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