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Rider, fl. 1858 [Cabinet card of Abraham Lincoln]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07094.03 Author/Creator: Rider, fl. 1858 Place Written: Chicago, Illinois Type: Photograph Date: circa 1858 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 10.7 cm Order a Copy

Printed from the original lost ambrotype taken by T.P. Pearson (Ostendorf No. O-8) at Macomb, Illinois, 26 August 1858 at the time of the Lincoln Douglas debates. Printed circa 1890. Shows Lincoln beardless. Printed with "Rider, 339 W. Madison Street, Chicago, Ill."

Rider, fl. 1858
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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