This life mask of Abraham Lincoln made by Leonard W. Volk in Chicago, April 1860 - shortly before Republican Convention.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He served from March 1861 to his assassination on April 15, 1865. This life mask of Abraham Lincoln made by Leonard W. Volk in Chicago, April 1860 - months after the Stephen Douglas/Abraham Lincoln debates and Lincoln loss to Douglas for a senate seat - and just a couple of months before the Republican Convention when he was chosen as the Republican candidate for president. The book dates to 1886.

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