Abraham Lincoln
Photograph
Abraham Lincoln
January 1861
Tintype
Image (1/16 plate): 1 1/4 × 1 in. (3.2 × 2.5 cm)
Case: 2 1/8 × 1 7/8 × 5/8 in. (5.4 × 4.8 × 1.6 cm)
Purchase
1969.0206.0008
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 737
Entry 737 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Fine miniature gutta percha case with basket of fruit on it, costing 1.50 and containing tintype of Lincoln taken Saturday, Jan. 26, 1861 by C.S. German of Springfield, Ill. Before he left for 1st Inaugurations in in Wash. D.C. (See Stefan Sorant’s Lincoln book. Worth 25.00.
Entry 737 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Fine miniature gutta percha case with basket of fruit on it, costing 1.50 and containing tintype of Lincoln taken Saturday, Jan. 26, 1861 by C.S. German of Springfield, Ill. Before he left for 1st Inaugurations in in Wash. D.C. (See Stefan Sorant’s Lincoln book. Worth 25.00.
