File:Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right LCCN2009630657.jpg

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English: Title: Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
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Samuel Montague Fassett  (1825–1910)  wikidata:Q69581167
 
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S. M. Fassett; Samuel M. Fassett
Description Canadian-American photographer
Date of birth/death 11 May 1825 Edit this at Wikidata 1910 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Canada Washington, D.C.
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creator QS:P170,Q69581167
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Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
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  • Ostendorf, no. 16
  • Meserve, no. 8
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • The Library's copy negative LC-USZ62-11492 was made from a print in the collection of Mrs. Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
  • "Lincoln posed for this portrait at the gallery of Cooke and Fassett in Chicago, and Cooke, who had asked for the sitting, wrote on April 25, 1865, to his partner: 'Mrs. Lincoln pronounced [it] the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband." The negative of this rare photograph was destroyed in the Chicago fire." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 30)
  • Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 30.
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prints and photographs division
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lincoln, abraham · gelatin silver prints · portrait photographs

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