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Abraham Lincoln


Of the many pre-presidential photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln considered this image taken in Chicago by Samuel M. Fassett on October 4, 1859 to have been the best likeness she had seen of her husband.


Samuel M. Fassett (active 1855–1875)
Salt print, 1859
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 

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