File:Abraham Lincoln O-27 by Hesler BDR.jpg

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English: Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Alexander Hesler  (1823–1895)  wikidata:Q4719134
 
Alexander Hesler
Alternative names
Alexander Hessler
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 12 July 1823 Edit this at Wikidata 5 July 1895 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Montreal Evanston
Work period 1853-1865
Work location
Chicago, Illinois
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creator QS:P170,Q4719134
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English: Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right
Description
Photo shows Lincoln in a print made from a negative taken by Alexander Hessler, Springfield, Illinois, June 3, 1860. Lincoln said of this portrait: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever seen; if it pleases the people I am satisfied." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 47) "The original plates were retained by George B. Ayres when he bought and sold the Hesler gallery right after the Civil War. In 1881, Ayres made some fine prints directly from the plates, at the same time producing a duplicate set of glass negatives. In 1933, the original plates were cracked in the mail. The post office paid the claim and presented the broken negatives to the Smithsonian Institution. The duplicate plates are now owned by the Chicago Historical Society. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 49)
Depicted people Abraham Lincoln
Date 3 June 1860
date QS:P571,+1860-06-03T00:00:00Z/11
Medium 1 photographic print : albumen.
Brown Digital Repository
Current location
Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
Exhibition history Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Notes Ostendorf, no. 27; Meserve, no. 25
Source Brown Digital Repository
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