Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . of fallible human opinions. Photo-graphs are records of unquestionable facts. Literature at bestis a statement of what the writer believes to be true. A goodphotograph is truth itself. Literature may be, and often is,false. A good photograph cannot be untrue. A first-classphotograph and a well-made life-mask cannot tell the wholetruth but they can and do tell nothing but the truth. Andall lovers of truth and all admirers of Lincoln may well re-joice at the entrance into this field of investigation of someof the ablest, most skillful and
Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . of fallible human opinions. Photo-graphs are records of unquestionable facts. Literature at bestis a statement of what the writer believes to be true. A goodphotograph is truth itself. Literature may be, and often is,false. A good photograph cannot be untrue. A first-classphotograph and a well-made life-mask cannot tell the wholetruth but they can and do tell nothing but the truth. Andall lovers of truth and all admirers of Lincoln may well re-joice at the entrance into this field of investigation of someof the ablest, most skillful and learned sculptors of the worldwho, with the Volk life-mask and the products of the camera,have given to the world its first truthful and accurate descrip-tion of the physical construction and appearance of AbrahamLincoln. It was at the prime of Mr. Lincolns heroic manhoodin 1858 that Leonard W. Volk met the future President at oneof the great debates and secured from him a promise to sit fora life-mask when next in Chicago for several consecutive LEONARD W. VOLK AND HIS BUSTS OF LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS From an original photograph presented the author by Miss Caroline Mcllvaine, Chicago. LINCOLNS PERSONAL APPEARANCE 6i Mr. Volk was at that time engaged in making the heroicstatue of Douglas which adorns one of the pubHc parks ofChicago, and therefore it was not until April, i860, that theopportunity came to make the famous Lincoln life-mask andbust. This was done soon after the Cooper Institute speechand a few weeks previous to the Chicago convention by whichMr. Lincoln was nominated as a candidate for after that nomination Volk supplemented his work bymaking plaster casts of both of Lincolns hands. Good fortune favored the sculptors purposes in this matterand helpful influences inspired his genius and aided his was an ardent admirer of Douglas who, at that time, wasthe leading democratic candidate for President. Having madea life-mask of Douglas o
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