The earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln. This photograph from the Frederick H&dot; Meserve Collection is a copy of a daguerreotype believed to have been made in 1846 by N&dot; H&dot; Shepherd. Later loaned to Ida M&dot; Tarbell by Robert T&dot; Lin | Northern Illinois University Digital Library

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Title: The earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln. This photograph from the Frederick H&dot; Meserve Collection is a copy of a daguerreotype believed to have been made in 1846 by N&dot; H&dot; Shepherd. Later loaned to Ida M&dot; Tarbell by Robert T&dot; Lin
Creator: Sandburg, Carl
Resource Type: still image
Genre/Form: photographs
Date Issued: 1925
Owning Institution: Northern Illinois University
Source Note: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Subject: people
Lincoln
Lincoln's Biography
1818--1860
Identifier: sandburg304