[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president. Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, June 3, 1860] (LOC)

Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, photographer.

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president. Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, June 3, 1860]

[Springfield, Ill., 1860]

1 photographic print ; oval 6 x 5 in.

Notes:
 "Not long after Lincoln's nomination [for president], a Chicago reporter visited his home and noticed a framed photograph over the sofa. Likely it was one of the Hesler poses ... Observed the nominee: 'That picture gives a very fair representation of my homely face.'" (Source: Ostendorf, p. 48)

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 48.

Title devised by Library staff.
Gift; Louis M. Rabinowitz; 1952 March 27.

Subjects:
 Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865.

Format: Portrait photographs--1860.
Photographic prints--1860.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19200

Call Number: LOT 5908 [item]

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Dean Stevens, zoezolka, agnellina, jennieng, and 56 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Cassies grandma (48 months ago | reply)

    You can see the yrs wearing on him here from the previous picture.

  3. Tonya Faye (48 months ago | reply)

    Whoa...he looks so strange in this one!

  4. Short Bread [deleted] (48 months ago | reply)

    Mr. Lincoln kind of looks like my uncle Gary in this photo... I'll have to find a shot of my uncle...

  5. Boats-n-Cars (48 months ago | reply)

    Can anyone explain the one-sided collar and the way the tie ends on his right?

  6. pix luvr (48 months ago | reply)

    Boats-n-cars... it looks like the collar is all there... but a stain on the photograph is clearly more noticable, therefore creating an illusion of a one-sided collar and blunt ending of the tie. The stain extends into the jaw & lower cheek area also. oops.

  7. Boats-n-Cars (48 months ago | reply)

    Thanks pix luvr. It almost looks as if someone started to paint-out the collar ant tie.

  8. sum182oftheyear (48 months ago | reply)

    Anybody else think he looks a lot like Daniel Craig in this photo?

  9. jrcohen (48 months ago | reply)

    i've never seen him without facial hair!
    thanks for providing such a great asset (your photostream) to the world!

  10. fw652830 (48 months ago | reply)

    Attention: Design Commitee of the U.S. Postal Service: On this, the eve of the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, it would be fitting and appropriate to enshrine Mr.Lincoln's memory into our hearts with the introduction of a sheetlet of U.S.postage stamps with various portraits of Lincoln, both when he was young and as an adult.

  11. Jenbolaya (48 months ago | reply)

    he looks like Al Bundy here...

  12. 11:19 [deleted] (47 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Eye Candy Art Post (share 1 comment 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  13. mikeossur (47 months ago | reply)

    I happen to own one of these.

  14. Keith Hernandez (42 months ago | reply)

    He actually looks like Liam Neeson. lol

  15. crozelle1 (40 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Abraham Lincoln, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  16. m63360 (39 months ago | reply)

    It says he is facing right !!
    Actually, he is facing to his left.

  17. cudau.botcanh (31 months ago | reply)

    Nice pic!!!!!!!!!

  18. spiderman studios (7 months ago | reply)

    did you see abe lincoln vampire hunter

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