JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
It just occurred to me to wonder, how many photos of Abraham Lincoln exist? Not the bogus ones, the stretches people find and optimistically imagine a likeness between our most unique looking President and the unknown sitter ( who could blame them? ). I'm referring to every, single known photographic image- in a group or as a sitter for a photographer.
I'd say I'll start, have an awful lot of them but it also just occurred to me that in the interests of History- be good to have the background of the photo included if possible- photographer, date, circumstances, in order to make this a really comprehensive thread. Do NOT have that!
OK, just looked one up. I think this tintype is backwards.
" The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln. From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, former editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the most influential anti-slavery German newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr. Lincoln in 1853, in Springfield. "He was already a man necessary to know," says Mr. Schneider. In 1854 Mr. Lincoln was in Chicago, and Isaac N. Arnold invited Mr. Schneider to dine with Mr. Lincoln. After dinner, as the gentlemen were going down town, they stopped at an itinerant photograph gallery, and Mr. Lincoln had this picture taken for Mr. Schneider. "
Gelatin silver print of a presumed lost daguerreotype.
This daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln. It was reportedly made in 1846 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.
Daguerreotype, quarter plate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln
I'd say I'll start, have an awful lot of them but it also just occurred to me that in the interests of History- be good to have the background of the photo included if possible- photographer, date, circumstances, in order to make this a really comprehensive thread. Do NOT have that!
OK, just looked one up. I think this tintype is backwards.
" The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln. From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, former editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the most influential anti-slavery German newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr. Lincoln in 1853, in Springfield. "He was already a man necessary to know," says Mr. Schneider. In 1854 Mr. Lincoln was in Chicago, and Isaac N. Arnold invited Mr. Schneider to dine with Mr. Lincoln. After dinner, as the gentlemen were going down town, they stopped at an itinerant photograph gallery, and Mr. Lincoln had this picture taken for Mr. Schneider. "
Gelatin silver print of a presumed lost daguerreotype.
This daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln. It was reportedly made in 1846 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.
Daguerreotype, quarter plate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln