Is This Abraham Lincoln?

[Steve]

(06-20-2017 04:47 PM)wcvet6 Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 04:18 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Marsha (wcvet6 on the forum) sent this photo. She would like to know if folks think this is/is not Abraham Lincoln.

this is a post mortum abe Lincoln , compare his facial features , ears ,hands arms shoulders, the hair color could be the lighting or flash,
check the hairline , the embalmers report says he set his lips in a slight smile my photo shows that , he was clean shaven except a tuft on his chin ,

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(06-20-2017 07:15 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  IMO, Gene is correct. I am posting the last picture of Lincoln in life, as well as the only photo in death, and the hair/beard color does not match up with Marsha's photo.

that death photo shows a full beard , the embalmer shaved him, no slight smile as per embalmers report , in fact I believe it to be a bust of his 1861 life mask, abe looked much older at death.

Marsha,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your photo. However, it is not a postmortem photograph. The posing stand behind the man would not have been able to support the weight of a dead body keeping it upright. The stand was used to help keep the person still for an exposure time that could take as long as a minute. If you look at the top of the man's cane, you'll notice that its top is blurred while its bottom is not. This is because the man in the photo is leaning on the cane for support and is moving his hand slightly.