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| Version 1: Digital Print of Hardcopy
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| alteration of: Library of Congress LC-USZ62-10673-3a13087u
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| Image has been widened to compensate for artifactual vertical elongation of original; explanation. Thumbnail shows reality sidedness; see note below. Cheek mole: seen. Ear lobe line: unseen. Ptosis: bilateral. Eyelid higher on left. Bilateral single vertical cheek furrows. Jaw symmetry. Skinny neck. Hair part not clear.
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- mellon (p191)
- Provides excellent discussion of the reason this image, once thought to have been taken in 1858, is now dated October 1854.
- hamilton
- Daguerreotype by P. von Schneidau, Chicago, Sunday, July 11, 1858.
- ostendorfA
- Daguerreotype by P. von Schneidau, Chicago, Friday, October 27, 1854.
- kunhardt (p104)
- "The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln was taken in 1854 in Chicago."
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Mirror comment
The original image is billed as a daguerreotype. This means that Lincoln should be shown mirror-reversed. However, the mole on Lincoln's face is visible on his right side (as it was in reality), which means that these prints from the original image have already been mirror-reversed somewhere along the way. Thus, the images presented here are as the Library of Congress presents them.
