According to Wikipedia, there are 130 known photographs of Abraham Lincoln. According to John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln’s secretaries,
“Lincoln's features were the despair of every artist who undertook his portrait. The writer saw nearly a dozen, one after another, soon after the first nomination to the presidency, attempt the task. They put into their pictures the large, rugged features, and strong, prominent lines; they made measurements to obtain exact proportions; they "petrified" some single look, but the picture remained hard and cold. Even before these paintings were finished it was plain to see that they were unsatisfactory to the artists themselves, and much more so to the intimate friends of the man this was not he who smiled, spoke, laughed, charmed. The picture was to the man as the grain of sand to the mountain, as the dead to the living. Graphic art was powerless before a face that moved through a thousand delicate gradations of line and contour, light and shade, sparkle of the eye and curve of the lip, in the long gamut of expression from grave to gay, and back again from the rollicking jollity of laughter to that serious, far away look that with prophetic intuitions beheld the awful panorama of war, and heard the cry of oppression and suffering. There are many pictures of Lincoln; there is no portrait of him.”
An 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell wrote to Lincoln, asking "let your whiskers grow ... you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President." and the president-elect responded "As to the whiskers have never worn any do you not think people would call it a silly affection if I were to begin it now?" Regardless, the next time he visited his barber William Florville, he announced "Billy, let's give them a chance to grow." By the time President-elect Abraham Lincoln began his inaugural journey by train from Springfield, Illinois to Washington, D.C., he had a grown a full beard for which he became famous for through his life.
For more information and additional photographs, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
"Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but leave him when he is wrong.”
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”
"You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
"When I’m getting ready to reason with a man I spend one third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say—and two thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.”
"You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.”
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
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