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You can see the yrs wearing on him here from the previous picture.

Whoa...he looks so strange in this one!

Mr. Lincoln kind of looks like my uncle Gary in this photo... I'll have to find a shot of my uncle...

Can anyone explain the one-sided collar and the way the tie ends on his right?

Boats-n-cars... it looks like the collar is all there... but a stain on the photograph is clearly more noticable, therefore creating an illusion of a one-sided collar and blunt ending of the tie. The stain extends into the jaw & lower cheek area also. oops.

interesting.. i had not seen a photo of him with his hair like that. he looks very different.

He looks like he just got his hair blown dry. Cool to see a different view of him. Wish I could see it in 3-D as intended

bsmif: Look at it, then cross your eyes until the two images meet in the middle. You'll see a 3D version of it.

yeah! the 3d effect works! i would love to see all of these at a larger res, to really see details

Wow! That actually works!!! -- Seen in your Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) set. (?)

They always say Lincoln was a homely man. I would say he was quite handsome here. Can you see the seeds of greatness here?

I think this is a very nice picture of president Abraham Lincoln. He looks great in this picture. We must thank Shepherd, Nicholas H., the photographer for taking this picture of the president. The picture of the president is a great memory of a great man!

Lincoln was a tyrant.

idswart, lincoln probably was a tyrant. wikipedia outlines the most basic aspects of this, saying he: "suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money before Congress appropriated it, and imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial." Lincoln violated the rule of law, the constitution, the human rights of thousands - to a much greater extent than any president that came before him. the very troubling thing is that out of this tyranny, and perhaps even because of this tyranny, the even greater tyranny of slavery was ended. when we look at Lincoln we see an incredibly complicated figure who challenges our ideas of what is just and what is right from many different directions. it does depend somewhat on your definition of tyranny though. Lincoln never declared himself emperor or king or president-for-life, which is usually what people think of when they think of tyrants. this is why even though Lincoln violated the constitution and trampled on rights throughout the course of the civil war, it is difficult to put him in the same class as Napoleon or Mao.

I agree with most of what you had to say, but I believe that the original Constitutional Republic built by our founding fathers ceased to be after the end of the War Between the States.