Excerpt from Lincoln in Portraiture Pagegraphs of him taken at fateful periods of his great career. Three score of these photographs, masks, busts and portraits are here reproduced with such measure of comment and description as each item seems to demand. From the daguerreotype taken at Springfield in 1846, the earliest likeness of Lincoln that has been spared us, down to the photograph for which he sat at Washington on Palm Sunday in 1865, a few days before his death, the plates assembled in this volume, ranging from the hopeful confidence of their subjects early manhood to the tempered and sober self-mastery of his last days, clearly reflect the mental and spiritual development through eventful years of the greatest man of his period and country. One rises from a study of them with new and reverent knowledge of the life and growth which have made Abraham Lincoln's mem ory a part of the proud and precious heritage of every American. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.