Biography of abraham lincoln images

Image Date Photographer Location Technique Owner Notes or Nicholas H.

Shepherd Springfield, IllinoisDaguerreotype, quarter plate^[2]Library of CongressThis daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln.

It was reportedly made in by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Shepherd's Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, which he advertised in the Sangamo Journal, was located in Springfield over the drug store of J.

Brookie. Shepherd also studied law at the law office of Lincoln and Herndon.^[3]October 27, Johan Carl Frederic Polycarpus Von Schneidau^[4]Chicago, IllinoisGelatin silver print of a presumed lost daguerreotype^[5]The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln.

From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, former editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung,