Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Size:18x24 14125 comes from the great

14125 comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

and any space drawn to the long sweep of American historical memory

1863 — a wartime portrait of the Ohio congressman turned soldier

the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record

The Great Agnostic at the height of his lecture-circuit fame

Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Size:18x24 14125 comes from the greatHon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860. A campaign portrait of the prairie lawyer on the eve of his improbable election issued by the young Republican coalition as the Union itself began to fray, the Illinoisan's likeness pressed into service before the first shot at Sumter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of