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There are thousands of authentic portraits and pictures of Abraham Lincoln in existence today. When he was a young lawyer in Illinois, "riding the circuit" in the country districts of that state, he was photographed by local photographers hundreds of times, and gradually, as he became famous in politics, his picture was taken many more times by experienced and skillful photographers in the larger cities, each one of them attempting to excel the other in the best likeness, of the man who was occupying so much attention throughout America and Europe, says a writer In Pittsburg Dispatch. Naturally, too, during nis administration, and as a successful close, he was not only snapped, but caricatured at every possible phase—from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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