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Early Campaign Portrait, 1860 (This early campaign portrait is based on an October 1859 photographic portrait of the Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. Below it is a small allegorical vignette of an eagle with a shield, holding a streamer with the words “State Sovereignty” and “National Union.”

Image from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.)

This early campaign portrait is based on an October 1859 photographic portrait of the Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. Below it is a small allegorical vignette of an eagle with a shield, holding a streamer with the words “State Sovereignty” and “National Union.”

Image from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.