This photo was taken during the height of the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates on October 11, 1858 in Quincy, Illinois.
Lincoln sat for this portrait at the gallery of Cooke and Fassett in Chicago on October 4, 1859. Cooke wrote in 1865 "Mrs. Lincoln pronounced [it] the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband." We think he looks a little solemn, however!
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