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| Keywords: Lincoln O-14 by Roderick Cole, 1858.jpg On July 3 1905 R M Cole wrote to Judge McCulloch on of the founders of the Illinois Historical Library the Photo you have of Abraham Lincoln is a copy of a Daguerreotype that I made in my gallery in this city Peoria during the Lincoln and Douglas campaign I invited him to my gallery to give me a sitting and when I had my plate ready he said to me 'I cannot see why all you artists want a likeness of me unless it is because I am the homeliest man in the State of Illinois ' Lincoln liked the image and often signed photographic prints for admirers In fact in 1861 he even gave a copy to his stepmother 1858 photograph Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation object history exhibition history credit line O-14 M-14 accession number Institution Library of Congress http //myloc gov/Exhibitions/lincoln/vignettes/CandidateLincoln/ExhibitObjects/LincolnPortrait aspx http //www shapell org/manuscript aspx 169684 Retouched picture cropped border scewing http //memory loc gov/master/ipo/qcdata/qcdata6/lincoln/tiffs/al0071 tif PD-Art Abraham Lincoln in 1858 1858 portrait photographs | ||||
