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2/27/2017 2:58 pm  #1


1860 Mathew Brady photographs presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln

1860
Mathew Brady photographs presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mathew-brady-photographs-presidential-candidate-abraham-lincoln

On this day in 1860, President Abraham Lincoln poses for the first of several portraits by noted Civil War-era photographer Mathew Brady. Days later, the photograph is published on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar with the caption, Hon. Abram [sic] Lincoln, of Illinois, Republican Candidate for President.

A relatively new art form, the photograph (or daguerreotype) showed an unusually beardless Lincoln just moments before he delivered an address at Cooper Union that day. The address, in which he articulated his reasons for opposing slavery in the new territories, received wild applause and garnered strong support for his candidacy among New Yorkers.Lincoln was re-introduced to Brady a year after his election. The president shook Brady’s hand and said Mr. Brady and the Cooper Institute made me president.

Brady went on to photograph Lincoln several more times before Lincoln’s death in 1865. Brady also snapped photos of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln and two of Lincoln’s sons.
 


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2/27/2017 7:08 pm  #2


Re: 1860 Mathew Brady photographs presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln

And?


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

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