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1859.Oct.Fabronius.Mendel
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.