Courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield

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