I now know (I just found out via Google's Search Books) that George Bucher AYRES, who possessed the negative of Alexander Hesler's Beardless Lincoln portrait, passed it on to Edith Lyon Ayres BUNCE. From there, upon her death, it went to Anne Smith AYRES, another daughter of GBA's. William H. Woodward purchased it from her estate. Does anyone have any way of knowing about the exact date of death of Anne? One of the books mentioned her death as being in 1932. Thanks, Vince Summers