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A portrait painter's reminiscences of Lincoln /

Authors:
Conant, Alban Jasper,
Item ID:
71200908412075
Publisher:
New York : S.S. McClure Company, 1909.
Call Number:
E457.15 .C63 1909
Physical Description:
pages 512-516 ; 25 cm
Topic:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes.
Note:
CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS TO REACH THIS DOCUMENT.; Detached from McClure's Magazine, March 1909.; Portrait painter, author, preacher and teacher, Alban Jasper Conant is best known for his famous "Smiling Lincoln" portraits. Upon seeing his first painting, Mary Todd Lincoln was quoted as saying "That is excellent. That is the way he looks when he has his friends about him!" That portrait now hangs in Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University.
Publication Source:
nnas McClure's magazine. New York : S.S. McClure. Vol. 32, no. 5 (March 1909) (OCoLC)1780710
OCLC Number:
ocm20788662
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets