Authors: David Herbert Donald
Stephen T. Logan
Meserve-Kunhardt Collection
The Lincoln & Herndon Law Office. This unusually tidy view was sketched after the senior partner had been elected President.
Courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield
LINCOLN’S LAW PARTNERS
William H. Herndon
L. C. Handy Studios
Lincoln at the age of forty-five. Taken in Chicago in 1854, this daguerreotype by Polycarp von Schneidau shows Lincoln as he reappeared on the political stage to fight the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Chicago Historical Society
An 1860 photograph of the Lincoln House at Eighth and Jackson Streets in Springfield, Illinois, which was almost doubled in size after renovation in the 1850s. Lincoln and Tad stand just inside the fence.
The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana (#2149)
ILLINOIS POLITICAL ADVISERS
Orville Hickman Browning David Davis
Meserve-Kunhardt Collection
David Davis
Meserve-Kunhardt Collection
Lyman Trumbull
Chicago Historical Society
Stephan A. Douglas
The National Archives
RIVALS IN THE GREAT DEBATES OF 1858
Abraham Lincoln
The Library of Congress