With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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These companion daguerreotypes are the first-known photographic images of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. They were reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln's election as a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Shepherd's Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, which he advertised in the Sangamo Journal, was located in Springfield over the drug store of J. Brookie. Shepherd also studied law at the law office of Lincoln and Herndon.
These companion daguerreotypes are the first-known photographic images of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. They were reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln's election as a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Shepherd's Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, which he advertised in the <em>Sangamo Journal</em>, was located in Springfield over the drug store of J. Brookie. Shepherd also studied law at the law office of Lincoln and Herndon.