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Abraham Lincoln
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:12 pm
by Stefani
Sit back. In amazement.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/5562?size=_original
I couldn't stop staring. Unbelievable. Truly.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:42 pm
by doug65oh
Yes indeed. It's difficult to look at that photograph without calling to mind Navy Secretary Welles recollections of an evening some 9 weeks after it was made:
“His features were calm and striking. I had never seen them appear to better advantage than for the first hour, perhaps, that I was there. After that, his right eye began to swell and that part of his face became discolored. Senator Sumner was there, I think, when I entered. If not he came in soon after, as did Speaker Colfax, Mr. Secretary McCulloch, and the other members of the Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Seward. A double guard was stationed at the door and on the sidewalk, to repress the crowd, which was of course highly excited and anxious. The room was small and overcrowded. The surgeons and members of the Cabinet were as many as should have been in the room, but there were many more, and the hall and other rooms in the front or main house were full. One of these rooms was occupied by Mrs. Lincoln and her attendants, with Miss Harris. Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Kinney came to her about twelve o'clock. About once an hour Mrs. Lincoln would repair to the bedside of her dying husband and with lamentation and tears remain until overcome by emotion.”
-The Diary of Gideon Welles, v. 2, pg. 287
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:42 am
by Harry
Wow, incredibly clear. Thanks Stef!
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:37 am
by Stefani
I knew you would like it Harry.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:08 pm
by twinsrwe
What an awesome photo! Thanks Stefani.
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 11:51 am
by Tina-Kate
I wonder what he had in his hands looks like a pencil for one & that he may have been fidgeting.
What character in his face!!
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 2:34 pm
by Stefani
It is his glasses.
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 12:57 pm
by augusta
Does no one else see that it looks like he is playing with himself?
That don't look like any pair of eyeglasses I've ever seen. I cannot believe that is what he is doing. If that's what it is supposed to be, I'd think someone doctored that photo.
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:44 pm
by Angel
Good lord, woman!
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:07 pm
by augusta
I am probably mistaken. I hold great respect for Lincoln, and I thought it was a doctored photo done in very bad taste.
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:27 am
by Kat
I did not know he had blue eyes.
Here they are: If I had not seen the picture, I would have to guess who these belong to!