Show RARE PORTRAIT OF HONEST ABE picture believed to have been taken for purposes of presidential campaign campa ign IS NOW AT LEWISTON MAINE history of the picture Is fragmentary though it seems most probable it was made at quincy ill III in the year 1848 A portrait of abraham lincoln which those who nho are familiar with it believe to be a very rare one hangs upon the walls of a lewiston law office at all events no one has yet been found who remembers to have seen one lust just like it among any of the many portraits of tile tha martyred marty red president which have been published so frequently during the last few bev years in many of the leading magazines of the country the picture is a lithograph e evidently I taken from a crayon drawing and shows mr lincoln as a somewhat younger man than the majority of ills his portraits do under it is a facsimile of his autograph together with the words republican candidate for president sho showing edg that it was evidently used as a campaign portrait durine the campaign preceding his first election the portrait was obtained hy by the late john read father of tile the present owner of it at quincy ill during that campaign but who tool took tile the original from which chich it was ma made d e is I 1 a unknown k n oin n some years ago a boo book ic salesman who saw it claimed to know something about it and said that it was 1 1 wl I 1 0 ei Q Y MR ail ABRAHAM LINCOLN bjoin nn an old print taken soon after the which mr lincoln was as nominated and that the original photograph was taken at the request of mr medill of chicago for campaign purposes jur poses he said further that when mr lincoln went in to the photographers photographer s to to sil sit for the picture he had just come fron the barbers and his hair was plastered smoothly down upon his forehead but that happening to catch sight 0 of himself in a glass mr lincoln re marked that no one would know him with aith his bis hair so smooth as that and ran his hands through it giving it the disheveled appearance of the por trait lie ile said further that in making the enlargement for the lithograph the portrait was somewhat idealized and much of the natural ruggedness of mr Lincol ns features were smoothed out whether this man was correct in his belief as to the origin of 0 the portrait it is undoubtedly true that it Is considerably considerably idealized as will be seen from tile the copy the portrait while retaining the essential features which aro are so well known nevertheless making him a tar far handsomer man than he la is currently reported to have been and yet mrs read who has seen him often as a young man always said that it was an excellent likeness and that it looked just as mr lincoln did at the time he made his speech at quincy in the course of the famous debates with stephn A douglas as on october 13 1858 |