Paul Turner takes a close look at a glass copy positive of President Abraham Lincoln that he believes was made by his great-grandfather, Moses P. Rice, in the 1860s.
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For years, there was a metal trunk that stayed under Kathryn Rice Turner's bed in Ocean Pines.
Inside was a remarkable historical treasure - an original glass negative of President Abraham Lincoln made in 1863.
The 17-by-21-inch negative showed a seated Lincoln resting his left arm on a marble-top table. It was made using the wet plate collodion process, an innovation in photography in the mid-1800s. Family lore holds that it had been taken by her grandfather, photographer Moses Parker Rice. ...
