Nancy Hanks' lineage

[RJNorton]

In the article in the Lincoln Herald the question concerning the image was posed to two experts. And the experts disagreed! The first one said he "would lean toward saying the original was a daguerreotype." The second one said "if you look at the vests on gentlemen in daguerreotypes they are reversed." He noted that this did not seem to be the case in the alleged Thomas Lincoln image. This expert felt the image was "from a wet-plate negative original," and the wet-plate collodion process did not emerge until the early 1850s.

The author of the article, Michael Lynch, also asked a specialist in historical clothing about the image. She stated that the man's jacket sleeve width was more indicative of the late 1850s, not c. 1848-1850 when the image was supposedly taken.