The Abraham Lincoln Plate Negative

Grant Romer discusses his department's conservation of the Lincoln glass plate negative. Mr. Romer is the director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation Photo Conservation Department at George Eastman House, International Center of Photography and Film. His discussion of the Museum's work with the negative helps us understand the importance of preserving historically significant and unique photographic artifacts from our past, for our future.

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• George
• Eastman
• archive
• conservation
• collection
• photography
• museum
• preservation
• art
• lincoln
• abraham
• pimzlo

[phillitupp]

LOL "The problem that was developed" =D was that a unintended pun?

Two of my favorite things, Lincoln, and Glass plate photographs.

Thank you for this.

[KuznVinny]

At last I get to learn about and see an image of one of these plates. Hesler made the original plate, but George Bucher Ayres had a lot to do with preserving it. It was discovered in Hesler's studio that he sold to GBA just a short time before the Great Chicago Fire. I took particular interest, not in the portrait of Lincoln, but in Ayres, because my mother was an Ayres from the same immigrant ancestor.

Thanks for putting it online. I wish I had more information on original plate.

[spamsponge]

Boy, talk about a "lucky break", no cracks going through the face. Very nice.