Abraham Lincoln, daguerreotype attributed to N.H. Shepherd, 1846.
    The young Abraham Lincoln, age thirty-seven, posed for this photograph in Springfield, Illinois, the year of his election to the U. S. House of Representatives.  
Abraham Lincoln, daguerreotype
attributed to N. H. Shepherd, 1846,
courtesy of The Library of Congress

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