[Homer_J_Simpson]

On this date Abraham Lincoln had his photograph taken by Alexander Hesler in Springfield.

“Hesler took a total of four portraits at this sitting. Lincoln's law partner William Herndon wrote of this picture: ‘There is the peculiar curve of the lower lip, the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it.’"

List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln

[rustbucket]

Here is a June 2, 1860 newspaper page from the Evansville Daily Journal of Evansville, Indiana. Note Lincoln’s responses to Douglas’s questions on the left side of the paper.

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