Library of Congress says: Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front; ambrotype taken 1858 Aug. 26.
Wikipedia says: “Mr. Magie happened to remain over night at Macomb, at the same hotel with Mr. Lincoln, and the next morning took a walk about town, and upon Mr. Magie’s invitation they stepped into Mr. Pierson’s establishment, and the ambrotype of which this is a copy was the result. Mr. Lincoln, upon entering, looked at the camera as though he was unfamiliar with such an instrument, and then remarked: ‘Well, do you want to take a shot at me with this thing?’ He was shown to a glass, where he was told to ‘fix up,’ but declined, saying it would not be much of a likeness if he fixed up any. The old neighbors and acquaintances of Mr. Lincoln in Illinois, upon seeing this picture, are apt to exclaim: ‘There! that’s the best likeness of Mr. Lincoln that I ever saw!’ The dress he wore in this picture is the same in which he made his famous canvass with Senator Douglas.”
?J. C. Power, custodian of the Lincoln monument in Springfield
The MOLLUS incorrectly collection says: J.K. Maglie ambrotype Springfield 1858.
Meserve, no. 10
Ostendorf, no. 8
