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Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right – Historic Photograph Print

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, c. 1860 — historic print
Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, c. 1860. Historic print from the Lincoln collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right

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Few images of Abraham Lincoln from around 1860 show him in quite this way: a head-and-shoulders view turned to the right, the profile that became one of the most reproduced faces in the country. By that year Lincoln was a lawyer and former congressman from Illinois, and his growing fame as a speaker, especially after the 1858 Senate debates with Stephen Douglas, had made demand for his likeness high. Printed portraits like this one were sold and circulated widely during the presidential campaign that autumn, when engravers and lithographers turned photographs into images for newspapers and campaign material. Worth noticing is how these prints gave voters a sense of a plain, serious man who would soon lead a divided nation.

Created / publishedc. 1860
Mediumprint
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,048 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-P-5

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