The Physical Lincoln: A58eg2

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<= a58eg1   a58hz => A58eg2 Photographer Byers Location Beardstown, IL Sitting 1858-05-07 Technique Ambrotype Meserve # 7 Ostendorf # 5 Ostendorf pg 15 Mellon pg 29 Kunhardt pg 87 Synonym none AL ML RL TL WL XL <= a58eg1 a58hz =>   Ostendorf3 Ambrotype by Abraham M. Byers, Beardstown, Friday, May 7, 1858.

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Byers actually took two ambrotypes of Lincoln during this sitting. He kept one (which now belongs to the University of Nebraska) and the other was published by Ida Tarbell in McClure's Magazine in 1895. They are so similar that Ostendorf3 classifies them as a single pose (p 14).