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File Details: ANSSm, 800 DPI, TIFF, Original Photographs, 1.6 Mb

Image ID: ANSS

Credit:

by Thomson (William J.)

Date:

1858.10.11

Locations & Lines:

Monmouth IL; Illinois

Persons:

Lincoln (Abraham)

Sources:

Allen County Public Library; Illinois Library; Library of Congress; National Portrait Gallery

Library of Congress says: Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, October 11, 1858. Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln while he was in Monmouth, Illinois, to give a speech and two days before his sixth debate with Stephen A. Douglas during their campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat.

Wikipedia says: This ambrotype was taken two days before the next to last debate with Douglas in Quincy, Illinois.

Ostendorf, no. 11
Meserve, no. 13

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