Seeing the Civil War

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Credit:

by Fassett (Samuel M.)
Date:

1859.10.04
Locations & Lines:

Chicago IL; Illinois
Persons:

Lincoln (Abraham)
Sources:

Allen County Public Library; Illinois Library; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; National Portrait Gallery; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection
Structures:

Cooke and Fassett’s Gallery (Chicago IL)

Wikipedia says: Lincoln sat for this portrait at the gallery of Cooke and Fassett in Chicago. Cooke wrote in 1865 “Mrs. Lincoln pronounced [it] the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband.” Negative destroyed in Great Chicago Fire.

Ostendorf, no. 16
Meserve, no. 8

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