"The Widow Lincoln" from the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

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I have always been shocked by his change of appearance from the round-faced, happy looking, little boy of 1865, to the gaunt, long-faced, young man six years later. Very sad.

How much later did it become pretty standard practice for people of means to send their tuberculosis patients to Arizon and Nevada territories to "dry up" their lungs? My great-uncle, the young Huntt infant that my great-grandparents were feeding at 1 am on the night of April 15, 1865, had tuberculosis in his twenties, and I have a great photo of him (in a sombrero) taken during his cures in Arizona.