The Train That Made Lincoln Visible In our first episodes we sketched the portrait of a young village photographer on the banks of the Erie Canal, John B. Roberts — the hero, as it were, of our serial — and the rather extraordinary story of how the single surviving copy of a small-town newspaper turned […]
Étiquette : Mary Todd Lincoln
Lost Daguerreotype — Draft – Episode 2: The Only Known Lincoln Portrait in Daguerreotype
Iconographers agree on only three daguerreotypes of Abraham Lincoln, but only one is an original portrait. We nearly lost the name of its creator entirely.