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[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. WALKER, LEWIS EMORY. Carte-de-visite albumen print, 4 x 3 in. An unusual image, in which the President's haircut resembles a modern brush cut; it had been cut to facilitate the taking of his life mask by sculptor Clark Mills. Henry Ward Beecher, seeing this portrait, commented that Lincoln's hair "was every way for Sunday. It looked as though it was an abandoned stubble field." This print UNTRIMMED AND UNMOUNTED and rare as such. Hamilton/Ostendorf O-104.