"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." Abraham Lincoln, July 10, 1858, Chicago, Illinois.Scultpure: The Seated Lincoln, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Grant Park, Chicago. Other work featured on this blog by the same sculptor can be found here.
4 comments:
I have not seen this sculpture of my cousin, President Lincoln. I like it and his squared-off shoes.
Abraham Lincoln
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Oh, I did not know Lincoln had been sitting all this time up in Chicago!
nice photo. I do believe, as I've gotten older, I really started to enjoy American history.
I have not noticed this down there before....obviously wasn't looking!
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