The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting backstory.
The ambrotype given to Lame remained in the family and was inherited by Mary Davidson of Hendersonville, Tennessee. When she died in August 2022, her children decided the image should go to Springfield.
Following his two-hour Pittsfield speech on Oct. 1, local lawyer Daniel Gilmore, who had opened his home to Lincoln for lunch that day, persuaded the candidate to sit for the ambrotype at the gallery of Calvin Jackson. Carried to his home, a physician decided not to amputate Lame’s viciously lacerated arm, a risky decision in an era predating antibiotics. Infection rapidly set in, Lame’s temperature rose and he lay on the cusp of death.
Lincoln was no stranger to disfigurement. A horse’s kick in the head as a child might have contributed to aLame had a rally in store, however. Horseflies entering the open, unscreened window of Lame’s room swarmed the wound and laid eggs. Although no one understood at the time, maggots feasted on the decaying flesh and with it, the infection. Lame would live nearly four more decades, dying at age 76 in 1897.
Fischer believes the one given to Lame was a copy made that day. The image is featured in a small oval and enclosed in a leather-bound wooden case 3 5/8" high by 3 1/4" wide .
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