[Abraham Lincoln while a traveling lawyer, taken in Danville, Illinois – Antique Print
![[Abraham Lincoln while a traveling lawyer, taken in Danville, Illinois, 1857 May 27 [printed later] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b1/b1def4355eaf-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of [Abraham Lincoln while a traveling lawyer, taken in Danville, Illinois brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Abraham Lincoln while a traveling lawyer, taken in Danville, Illinois
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Lincoln sat for this portrait in Danville, Illinois, on May 27, 1857, while he was working the Eighth Judicial Circuit as a traveling lawyer. The original image is an ambrotype, a glass-plate process that was popular in the 1850s, and it survives today at the Illinois State Historical Library. The version shown here is a gelatin silver print made later from that original, one of several copies that circulated after Frederick Hill Meserve and Lloyd Ostendorf cataloged Lincoln's photographs. Its value lies in showing the lawyer on the road, a working life spent in courthouse towns long before he became president.
| Created / published | 1857 May 27 [printed later] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Gelatin silver prints 1900-1960. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 43. Original photograph: The original ambrotype is at the Illinois State Historical Library. Ostendorf, no. 3 Meserve, no. 2 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 8-9. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113310 |
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