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Which One is the Real Abe Lincoln?

Creator:
True Magazine
Location:
Unknown place made
Origin Date:
1967-1975
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 14 7/8 in x 11 in
Item ID:
71.2009.081.2513
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
Available for Viewing:
No
Category:
Fine Art

Description

This print is a page from True Magazine on which are reproductions of a photograph of Abraham Lincoln on the viewer's left and one of a man purported to be Abraham Lincoln on the viewer's right. The advertising manager for True Magazine requests advertising people from other companies to fill out the form marking whether or not they think the second photograph is of Abraham Lincoln. The magazine page is inserted into a folder of which the front has text promoting advertising in True Magazine. The inside of the back of the folder has a full-length reproduction of the photograph purported to be Abraham Lincoln. Below the photograph is the caption: "A daguerreotype discovered in 1966 by photographer Leo Stashin. It is an early wet plate photograph believed to have been taken in 1854 by N. H. Shepherd, a druggist-daguerreotypist known to have taken an earlier picture of Lincoln. If authentic, it will become the 133rd known Lincoln photograph." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum