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A 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.
Original Medium
ambrotype
Type
Still image
Photograph
Repository
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
Collection Title
Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)
Publisher
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
This image is in the public domain. Descriptions are in copyright, reprinted courtesy of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.
A 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.
Original Medium
ambrotype
Type
Still image
Photograph
Repository
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
Collection Title
Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)
Publisher
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
This image is in the public domain. Descriptions are in copyright, reprinted courtesy of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.