[ Photographs ] (Lincoln, Abraham) Republican rally, Springfield, Illinois, with a towering, white-suited Lincoln standing at the door to his house. Silver print from the original glass negative, 9.5 x 13inches. 1860; printed 1880s-early 90s

[ Photographs ] (Lincoln, Abraham) Republican rally, Springfield, Illinois, with a towering, white-suited Lincoln standing at the door to his house. Silver print from the original glass negative, 9.5 x 13inches. 1860; printed 1880s-early 90s E1500-2500 This image is reproduced in Charles Hamilton's and Lloyd Ostendorfs Lincoln In Photographs, p. 60, where the caption reads: "A Joyous crowd cheers its candidate in this photograph by an unknown photographer taken on August 8, 1860 After a huge Republican rally in the morning, enthusiastic Lincoln supporters ... gathered at midday infront of his house. They carried banners bearing the slogan 'Won't you let me in, Kansas."'