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Photographer: William Painter Pearson via Western Illinois Museum (PD)
Taken: August 26, 1858
Caption: Lincoln's Macomb Portrait
Additional Description: After his first speech in Macomb, Lincoln spent the night at the Randolph House hotel. The next morning he decided to take a stroll around the square before boarding the train to his next campaign stop in Amboy, Ill. During his walk, Oquawka Plaindealer editor James K. Magie persuaded Lincoln to step inside William Painter Pearson's photography shop to get his portrait taken. This image is a print of an 1866 photographic print of the ambrotype image that Pearson made that day. The original ambrotype was destroyed in an 1888 fire.
Submitted: August 1, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p740745
File Size: 0.168 Megabytes

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