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Wow, I have never seen this one and I have seen a LOT of Lincoln images.

very cool....and again, so young looking. but i guess being president, war and the enormous amounts of stress he was obviously under will age you.

The facial expression is interesting... and he reminds me of Kramer in that photo (as in, Seinfeld).

I collected campaign buttons as a child; my requirement was that I usually received them from the candidate or at a campaign event. (I probably still have them somewhere.) I'd not seen them before from this early, though, and would be interested if anyone knows more about the provision (where they given away, free? what did they cost the campaign to make?) and use (this looks like it might have been worn on a chain?) of campaign buttons at the time. (edit: almost none of mine, most from the 1970s, had photographs on them)

I've seen hundreds of Lincoln photos, being a Civil War buff, but I've never seen this shot. Thanks for posting it.

Governor of New York; his wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Whitman

Wow, two phones, and look at all those newspapers. Obviously an important man.

This office is not the fancy paneled digs in Albany occupied by governors of New York State. When this photo was made (9/30/14), C. S. Whitman was still District Attorney of New York City. He was elected Governor in November, but did not take office as Governor of New York until January, 1915. Another Bain Agency photo of District Attorney Whitman:

One possible reason for the two phones is that in 1914 most of NYC was served by the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company except for Staten Island, which was served by the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company and was not directly reachable by phone from Manhattan. The first transcontinental phone call wasn't made until 1915. In 1914 the long distance lines ended in Denver.

He is instantly recognizable by his eyebrows, and I live in New Jersey. I didn't have to do any research: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Grove_Brumbaugh Martin Grove Brumbaugh, A.M., Ph.D. (April 14, 1862 – March 14, 1930) was Pennsylvania's 26th Governor, a Republican. He is frequently referred to as M.G. Brumbaugh, as is common in the Brumbaugh family.

Thanks Richard Arthur Norton, for filling in the name for us. We'll add this information to the record the next time we update.