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LINCOLN, Abraham]. MARSH, William, photographer . Portrait photograph on a card with printed legend "for President," at top and caption "Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois," at bottom edge. Boston: Henry F. Grangers, n.d. [1860]. 1 page, 12mo (4¼ x 3 3/16 in.), oval mounted albumen portrait (2½ x 2 in.), the oval framed by a textured border of small embossed half-moons, small circular embossed imprint at bottom: "Henry F. Granger & Co., Publishers Boston," Pinhole to Lincoln's right ear, one corner creased, horizontal tear in top margin neatly mended. See Hamilton & Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, O-21. THE FIRST IMAGE OF LINCOLN AS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: AN EXTREMELY RARE 1860 CAMPAIGN HANDBILL WITH A MARSH BEARDLESS PORTRAIT A highly unusual example of Lincoln campaign memorabilia, printed in Boston (like the following lot, the Clarke ambrotype badge) a stronghold of Lincoln support in the hard-fought 1860 campaign. The image used by the publisher, Granger, is a portrait taken by William Marsh in Springfield on 20 May 1860. Visited by Republican Convention Delegate Marcus L. Ward of Newark, New Jersey, two days after his nomination, Lincoln was aksed for a photograph. "He replied," wrote Ward, "that he had not a satisfactory one 'but then,' he added, 'we will walk out together and I will sit for one'" (Hamilton & Ostendorf, p.42). The image, one of two taken at that same sitting by Marsh, is notable in that it constitutes THE FIRST PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN AS THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. VERY RARE. Granger's small handbill--an extremely fragile ephemeron--was likely handed out to Lincoln supporters in Boston during the campaign.