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<p>This daguerreotype is the earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at age 37 when he was a frontier lawyer in Springfield and Congressman-elect from Illinois. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 4)  
</p><p>Attributed to Nicholas H. Shepherd, based on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/myrecollectionso00harr#page/n0/mode/2up">recollections of Gibson W. Harris</a>, a law student in Lincoln's office from 1845 to 1847. (Source: Gibson William Harris, "My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," Women's Home Companion (November 1903), 9-11.) Robert Lincoln, son of the President, thought the photo was made in either St. Louis or Washington during his father's term in Congress.
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Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 4-5.</div>
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Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographer.</div>
[1846 or 1847]
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