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Benjamin Altman Henry E. Howland 



Boston Athenaeum B. Seott Hurtt 



J. L. Cadwalader Henry Irving 



William Carey P. J. Koonz 



The Century Co. Enoch Lewis 



George W. Childs R. J. Lyle 



Thomas B. Clarke J. W. Mack 



Erwin Davis Payson Merrill 



Alex. W. Drake S. Weir Mitchell 



George M. Eddy Allen Thorndyke Rice 

 Fairmont Park Association, Phila- Jacob Schiff 



delphia Bram Stoker 



Richard Watson Gilder F. M. Stimson 



J. J. Glessner Augustus Saint-Gaudens 



John Hay William Thomson 



E. W. Hooper Alexis Turner 



Walter Howe J. Q. A. Ward 



It was the desire of this group that these important relics should 

 be preserved and no longer tampered with. This wish has always 

 been carefully respected. Incidentally, the authenticity of the mask 

 is attested by Leonard Volk's affidavit as well as by the presence of a 

 few hairs still embedded in the plaster at the temples. 



As has been said, Volk cast the face in April and the hands in May 

 1860. On June 3 of the same year, the Chicago photographer Alex- 

 ander Hessler made his famous portraits of Lincoln in Springfield. 

 One of these, according to Jesse Weik (1922), was "pronounced by 

 Mr. Herndon [Lincoln's law partner] to be the best and most lifelike 

 portrait of Lincoln in existence." Two of the surviving Hessler glass 

 negatives, both unfortunately damaged, recently have been deposited 

 in the National Museum. These negatives have been described and 

 illustrated by the former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Dr. Alexander Wetmore (1936). The casts and the photographs to- 

 gether provide the finest original records of Lincoln at the time of his 

 nomination. 



LINCOLN AND MILLS 



The last 5 years of Lincoln's life — 1860-65 — were devoted to 

 the Nation's highest political office and were spent largely in Wash- 

 ington. The Civil War added to the usual strain of this office. Dur- 

 ing these years, as Shutes has remarked (1933), "he aged with great 

 rapidity." We have Volk's word that already during the Presidential 

 campaign of 1860 — that is, between the time he sat to Volk for his 

 bust and when he left Springfield for Washington — he had lost 40 

 pounds. His average weight was only 180 pounds; his stature 6 feet 

 4 inches. After the election he began to grow a beard. Although 

 the greater number of pictorial representations of Lincoln relate to 

 this period, there is only one other three-dimensional record com- 



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