Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Jeff visits the Sacramento grave of Nicholas Shepherd, the very first person to take a photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

Mr. Shepherd was a daguerreotypist (early photographer) in Springfield, Illinois and knew Lincoln. He took the portraits and Abe and Mary in 1846. When the Gold Rush happened in California, Shepherd came out west and when the Donner Party was forming, Abe almost joined them!

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