tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/collections/6ff23a90-95b4-0131-1105-0050569601ca-f/itemsFrederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)2023-11-07T17:17:25Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9262232022-12-01T17:37:10Z2023-11-07T17:17:33ZAlbum (Meserve and Sandburg, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln)1 photograph album, 50 pages total, 36 in use, 14 blank. This album, compiled in conjunction with Meserve and Sandburg's The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (1944), includes 108 images of Abraham Lincoln taken from 1848-1865.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9262782022-12-01T17:37:35Z2023-11-07T17:17:47ZAlbum (Meserve and Sandburg, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln)1 photograph album, 50 pages total, 36 in use, 14 blank. This album, compiled in conjunction with Meserve and Sandburg's The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (1944), includes 108 images of Abraham Lincoln taken from 1848-1865.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9262732022-12-01T17:37:33Z2023-11-07T17:17:45ZAlbum of prints given to Harry E. Pratt by Frederick Hill Meserve in 1951University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260092022-12-01T17:35:15Z2023-11-07T17:17:21ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 1The earliest known portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A photograph of the daguerreotype believed to have been made by N. H. Shepherd in Springfield, Illinois, in 1846. Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, who owned the original, stated to the author that he believed it was made in Washington about 1848, when his father was a Representative in Congress.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260102022-12-01T17:35:16Z2023-11-07T17:17:21ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 2A photograph of the ambrotype believed to have been made by Amon J. T. Joslin in Danville, Illinois, in November, 1859.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260112022-12-01T17:35:17Z2023-11-07T17:17:21ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 3A photograph of the daguerreotype made by P. Von Schneider in Chicago in July, 1858. Mr. Lincoln spoke in Chicago on July 10, 1858, to answer Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who had spoken there the day before.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260122022-12-01T17:35:17Z2023-11-07T17:17:21ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 4A photograph of a ferrotype believed to have been made in 1860. Miss Ida M. Tarbell published this portrait in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln in 1896, believing it was made about 1856. The photographer is not known.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260132022-12-01T17:35:18Z2023-11-07T17:17:21ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 5A photograph of the ambrotype made by Samuel G. Alschuler in Urbana, Illinois, in April, 1858. Miss Ida M. Tarbell in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln stated that his linen duster was exchanged for the smaller dark coat of the photographer.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260142022-12-01T17:35:18Z2023-11-07T17:17:21ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 6A photograph made by Alexander Hesler in Chicago, February, 1857. Known as the first Hesler photograph. It was used in the Lincoln-Douglas senatorial campaign. The negative is said to have been lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260152022-12-01T17:35:19Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 7A photograph of the ambrotype made by Abraham B. Byers in Beardstown, Illinois, on May 7, 1858.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260162022-12-01T17:35:20Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 8A photograph probably made by S. M. Fassett in Chicago in October, 1859. Mr. Truman H. Bartlett of Boston stated in 1910 in connection with his copy, Alexander Hesler of Chicago says he took this photograph in 1858. It is considered one of the best of the beardless photographs.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260172022-12-01T17:35:20Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 9A photograph of the daguerreotype believed to have been made by C. S. German in Springfield in 1860. Major William, H. Lambert of Philadelphia, who owned the original, was unable to give the compiler its history, but he believed it was made in 1858.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260182022-12-01T17:35:21Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 10A photograph of the ambrotype made by W. P. Pearson in Macomb, Illinois, August 26, 1858, five days after the first debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois. The ambrotype was last owned in 1888 by Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine, when it was lost in the fire of the Century Building in New York.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260192022-12-01T17:35:21Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 11A photograph of the ambrotype made by W. P. Pearson in Macomb, Illinois, August 28, 1858. Slightly different from Number 10. There is a similar photograph with the imprint of S. P. Tresize, a photographer of Springfield, but probably a copy of the ambrotype.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260202022-12-01T17:35:22Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 12A photograph of the ambrotype made by Calvin Jackson, an itinerant ambrotypist in Pittsfield, Illinois, on October 1, 1858, six days before the fifth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Galesburg, Illinois.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260212022-12-01T17:35:23Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 13A photograph of the ambrotype made by William Judkins Thompson at Monmouth, Illinois, on October 11, 1858, two days before the sixth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Quincy, Illinois. Mr. Lincoln spoke for three hours at Monmouth.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260222022-12-01T17:35:23Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 14A photograph of the ambrotype made by H. H. Cole, probably in 1859 in Peoria, Illinois. Major William H. Lambert of Philadelphia in 1902 bought the ambrotype from Mr. Guy W. Hubbard of Springfield, who stated that in 1862 it had been given to his father, Captain William A. Hubbard of the 17th Illinois Infantry, for an act of bravery.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260232022-12-01T17:35:24Z2023-11-07T17:17:22ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 15A photograph of the ambrotype made by H. H. Cole, probably in 1859, in Peoria, Illinois. Slightly different from Number 14. Copied from a small tintype on a contemporary campaign badge.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260242022-12-01T17:35:24Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 16Detail of an 8"x 10" photograph of the Lincoln home in Springfield by an unknown photographer, showing Lincoln standing in the door with a crowd of neighbors, watching a procession, probably in the summer of 1860. A procession is known to have passed his house on August 8, 1860. It appears to be a demonstration favoring the admission of Kansas to the Union, as a banner states, "Won't you let me in? (Kansas)"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260252022-12-01T17:35:25Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 17A photograph of the ambrotype believed to have been made by Preston Butler in Springfield in 1858. McClure's Magazine of March, 1896, stated it was copied from a carbon enlargement of the ambrotype of June, 1860, but the style of collar worn by Mr. Lincoln seems to place it in the earlier year.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260262022-12-01T17:35:25Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 18A photograph believed to have been made in New York on February 27, 1860, by Mathew B. Brady, photographer following the Union armies during the war years.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260272022-12-01T17:35:26Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 19A photograph made in the New York studio of Mathew B. Brady on February 27, 1860. It is very slightly different from Number 20.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260282022-12-01T17:35:27Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 20A photograph by Mathew B. Brady made in New York on February 27, 1860. It is known as the Cooper Institute portrait, having been made on the day Lincoln delivered his speech under the auspices of the Young Men's Central Republican Union. This and the two preceding portraits are the first made by Brady.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260292022-12-01T17:35:28Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 21A photograph of the ambrotype made by William Church in Springfield on May 20, 1860, two days after Lincoln's nomination for President. This and Numbers 22 and 109 are believed to be the first portraits made of Lincoln after his nomination.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260302022-12-01T17:35:28Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 22A photograph of the ambrotype made by William Church in Springfield on May 20, 1860. This portrait, with Numbers 21 and 109, had no wide circulation, as they were made for Mr. J. Henry Brown of Philadelphia, who used them in painting a portrait of the nominee.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260312022-12-01T17:35:29Z2023-11-07T17:17:23ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 23Enlarged detail of a large photograph made in Springfield by A. J. Whipple of Boston, probably during the 1860 campaign. With Mr. Lincoln is one of the younger sons inside the fence at the corner of his home. The picture was taken from across the street and took in the whole house.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260322022-12-01T17:35:29Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 24Enlarged detail of a large photograph made by A. J. Whipple of Boston in Springfield at the same time as Number 23. Both of the younger sons are seen. The boy indistinctly seen on the sidewalk is Isaac R. Diller, a playmate of the Lincoln boys, who died in Springfield on September 28, 1943, in his eighty-ninth year.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260332022-12-01T17:35:30Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 25they are now in the Smithsonian Institution.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260342022-12-01T17:35:30Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 26A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. The purchase of this negative and Number 25 by Mr. George B. Ayres doubtless saved them from loss in the Hesler Gallery, which was burned in the Chicago fire of 1871.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260352022-12-01T17:35:31Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 27A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln gave to the compiler small copies of this portrait and Number 28 which had not been enlarged and touched up, as were Numbers 25 and 26 of this series. The negative was said to have been lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260362022-12-01T17:35:31Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 28A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. This and Number 27 did not have the wide distribution of Numbers 25 and 26, and are little known except to collectors. The negative is said to have been lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260372022-12-01T17:35:32Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 29A photograph of the 4" x 5" ambrotype made by Preston Butler in Springfield on August 13, 1860, for Mr. J. Henry Brown, who used it to make a miniature on ivory which later was owned by Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260382022-12-01T17:35:33Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 30A photograph of the 4" x 5" ambrotype made by Preston Butler in Springfield on August 13, 1860. It is likely that this portrait was made for the same purpose as was Number 29. Both are scarce items of Lincolniana.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260392022-12-01T17:35:33Z2023-11-07T17:17:24ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 31A photograph by an unknown photographer, probably made in Spring field in the summer of 1860.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260402022-12-01T17:35:34Z2023-11-07T17:17:25ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 32A photograph believed to have been made by William Seavy of Canton, Illinois, in Springfield in the summer of 1860, at the same time as Number 112.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260412022-12-01T17:35:34Z2023-11-07T17:17:25ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 33A photograph made by Samuel G. Alschuler in Springfield in November, in 1860. This is believed to be the first photograph showing the beard, which is seen in all later photographs.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260422022-12-01T17:35:35Z2023-11-07T17:17:25ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 34A photograph made by C. S. German in Springfield, January 26, 1861. The original negative of cabinet size is in the Lincoln Collection of Dr. Herbert Wells Fay of Springfield. The portrait for the original ten-dollar greenback was engraved from this photograph.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260432022-12-01T17:35:36Z2023-11-07T17:17:25ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 35Enlarged directly from a negative believed to be the original by C. S. German made in Springfield in February, 1861, now in the Meserve Collection. This and the next portrait are believed to be the last portraits of Lincoln before he left for Washington to be inaugurated President of the United States.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260442022-12-01T17:35:36Z2023-11-07T17:17:25ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 36A photograph made by C. S. German in Springfield in February, 1861, at the same time as Number 35.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/9260452022-12-01T17:35:37Z2023-11-07T17:17:25ZMeserve Lincoln Photograph No. 37A detail from a large photograph made by F. D. Richards in Philadelphia on February 22, 1861, at a flag-raising at Independence Hall at sunrise. In this picture Mr. Lincoln is standing directly over the third star from the left in the flag draped over the railing of the platform. This and Number 103 are believed to be the first photographs of a President-elect or a President speaking.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library