Image of Lincoln's Head on Calhoun's Body

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Here is a new article, The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Photos.

It includes this image, which it calls "famous", that apparently showed up shortly after Lincoln's death:



It is actually a doctored version of an 1852 engraving of Sen. John C. Calhoun. I cannot recall ever having seen this "Lincoln" image before.