First Photograph of Abraham Lincoln

Wood Engraving by Thomas Johnson from the Original Daguerreotype made about 1848 when Lincoln was thirty-nine years of age. Owned by the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, through whose courtesy it has been published.

Abraham Lincoln'

BY RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

This man whose homely face you look upon
Was one of Nature's masterful, great men;
Born with strong arms, that unfought battles won,
Direct of speech and cunning with the pen,
Chosen for large designs, he had the art
Of winning with his humor, and he went

Straight to his mark, which was the human heart;
Wise, too, for what he could not break, he bent.
Upon his back a more than Atlas-load,

The burden of the Commonwealth, was laid;
He stooped, and rose up to it, though the road
Shot suddenly downward, not a whit dismayed:
Patiently resolute, what the stern hour

Demanded, that he was,- that Man, that
Power.

By special permission of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Illustrations

GROUP OF LINCOLN, NICOLAY, AND HAY. Frontispiece

Fac-simile of the original letter written on Lincoln's Birthday,
1904.

FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Wood-engraving by Thomas Johnson from a daguerreotype made
about 1848, now in possession of Colonel Robert T.
Lincoln.

After an original photograph, now in possession of Mrs. Harriet
Chapman.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, NOVEMBER 19, 1863

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Fac-simile of the first draft in Lincoln's handwriting, showing
his corrections, now in possession of Colonel Robert T.
Lincoln.