Tad Lincoln

[Joe Di Cola]

(09-17-2012 12:29 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  I agree. Here's what I have in my files on this photo. It was taken in Iowa in the late spring/early summer of 1871 when Tad was visiting Robert Lincoln's in-laws. He's already quite thin (and maybe already ill) in this photo. But I have nothing on the identity of the other boy in the photo.

It is a sad photo and hardly bears a resemblance to Tad at all, especially when compared to a photo taken by Julius Ulke in Washington not many months before the photo in question. The very short hair is shocking, but not as much as how emaciated he appears to be. I have never seen the other boy "identified", and am guessing that he was an acquaintance of the Harlans who played with Tad when he visited. Is it possible that he could be the son of the photographer, Leisenring?

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(09-17-2012 02:44 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  

(09-17-2012 12:29 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  I agree. Here's what I have in my files on this photo. It was taken in Iowa in the late spring/early summer of 1871 when Tad was visiting Robert Lincoln's in-laws. He's already quite thin (and maybe already ill) in this photo. But I have nothing on the identity of the other boy in the photo.

It is a sad photo and hardly bears a resemblance to Tad at all, especially when compared to a photo taken by Julius Ulke in Washington not many months before the photo in question. The very short hair is shocking, but not as much as how emaciated he appears to be. I have never seen the other boy "identified", and am guessing that he was an acquaintance of the Harlans who played with Tad when he visited. Is it possible that he could be the son of the photographer, Leisenring?

The Lincoln Family Album lists a citation for the page on which the photo of Tad appears: The Harlan-Lincoln Tradition at Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Illinois Wesleyan College, 1977). Does anyone have a copy of that? It might answer the question re the unidentified boy.