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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 880418, member: 8267&quot;]Now I am intrigued with this controversy about the (not) Lincoln and (not) Mary Todd daguerreotype (the one komokwa posted). I really don&#039;t see how the owner of the purported dual portrait can think these are the same people. The clothing of the 2 appears to date during the 1840s. Here is an 1845-46 authenticated Lincoln daguerreotype (note the same wide lapels, and the similar bow tie).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]198920[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln</a></p><p>And an early daguerreotype of Mary Todd Lincoln (undated, but appears to be late 1840&#039;s by her dress and hair):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]198922[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=17" rel="nofollow">http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=17</a></p><p>For comparison, some other ladies from the 1840s:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]198923[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1840-1849/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1840-1849/" rel="nofollow">https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1840-1849/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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