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Place Created: New York, New York
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Photographer Mathew Brady took this portrait of Abraham Lincoln at his studio in New York City on the same day that Lincoln gave his now-famous Cooper Union address. Brady retouched the photograph, smoothing facial lines and straightening his subject’s “roving” left eye. The effect was striking, and what Lincoln jokingly referred to as his “shadow” later appeared on hundreds of campaign buttons, posters, and small printed cartes-de-visite.
Source: Brady, Mathew B., Approximately, photographer. Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, three-quarter length portrait, before delivering his Cooper Union address in New York City / Brady, N.Y. [printed later] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98504529/>.
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