Object Details
- Author
- Hesler, Alex
- Subject
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
- United States President
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Abraham Lincoln from original negative made shortly after the presidential election in November, 1860, by Alex Hesler of Chicago, at Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois. One of two negatives acquired in 1936 by the Smithsonian Institution. At this time Lincoln did not have his beard.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 16 Folder 20
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1860
- Standard number
- 2002-32257
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Glass plate negative
- Portraits
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Glass plate negative
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Portraits
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9615
