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[Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left; first photo to show his beard] – Antique Photo Print

[Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left; first photo to show his beard], [Chicago, Ill. : 1860 Nov. 25., printed later] — historic photograph
[Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left; first photo to show his beard], [Chicago, Ill. : 1860 Nov. 25., printed later]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Here Lincoln appears with the full beard he began growing during the 1860 campaign, a change that is often traced to a letter from an eleven-year-old girl, Grace Bedell, who suggested he would look better with whiskers. The caption card dates the sitting to Chicago on November 25, 1860, about three weeks after his election as president, when he was still a private citizen in Illinois. The print is a bust-length view turned to the left, and it was made later from the original negative. Its catalog numbers in Lloyd Ostendorf's and Frederick Meserve's studies of Lincoln photographs place it among the standard references for his likenesses.

Created / published[Chicago, Ill. : 1860 Nov. 25., printed later]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Ostendorf, no. 40 Meserve, no. 33 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 67.
SubjectsLincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,186 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137850

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