Photographs of President Abraham Lincoln

Ambrotype taken at Pittsfield, Illinois, October 1, 1858,
immediately after Lincoln had made his speech on the
public square - age 49 - Original by C. Jackson, Frederick
 H. Meserve collection during the Victorian Era.

Description of Illustration: antique photographs of Abraham Lincoln collected together and recorded by Victorian era publishers. For those of you who wish to know just what Lincoln looked like before his health began to decline during the Civil War.

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Lincoln at the time of John Brown's
 Raid at Harper's Ferry, age 50.

       The above negative, taken in 1859, was destroyed in the Chicago Fire--Mrs. Lincoln considered it the best likeness of her husband that she had ever seen-- It presents Lincoln as he appeared just before his nomination for the Presidency. 

Ambrotype taken August, 1860, when seventy thousand
 Westerners visited Lincoln at his home in Springfield,
 Illinois. He was 51 years old.

Photograph of Lincoln taken in 1860 at the time of his
"Cooper Institute Speech" in New York during his campaign
 for the Presidency-- age 51.

Lincoln with his youngest son,
Thomas, (Tad) in the White House.

       Photography taken with Lincoln in his characteristic attitude at home with his eleven year-old son by his side. His son William Wallace had died only two years before of typhoid, at the White House.

Photograph taken when Lincoln was seeking a
General for all the armies of the Republic in 1864.

Photograph of Lincoln in the closing
days of the American Crisis in 1865.

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