SOME GREAT PORTRAITS OF LINCOLN.
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LINCOLN IN 1861. AGE 52. FIRST PUBLISHED IN McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY, 1896.
From a photograph taken at Springfield, Illinois, early in 1861, by C. S. German, and owned by Allen Jasper Conant.
weakness of Douglas's position, and in the long run would help the general cause. Two days before the debate in which he was to take this bold step, he was at Macomb, Illinois, and there the portrait was made. It reflects, as no other por-