Lincoln & Photography marker - Urbana, IL - Illinois Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

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During the Spring term of the Circuit Court in 1858, Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait with photographer Samuel Alschuler. Alschuler’s studio was on the second floor of the Lowenstern Building, at the southwest corner of Main and Race streets, where the Busey Bank Building stands today. According to Urbana judge J. O. Cunningham, Mr. Lincoln was wearing a light colored duster (a long open coat worn when traveling by horse to protect clothing from dust). Since light colors did not photograph well, Alschuler offered his own jacket for the portrait. As Cunningham later said in ‘Some Recollections of Abraham Lincoln’: “Alschuler was a very short man in height, with short arms, but with a body nearly as large as the body of Mr. Lincoln. The arms of Lincoln extended through the sleeves of Alschuler’s coat a quarter of a yard, making him appear quite ludicrous; at which he, Lincoln, laughed immoderately, and sat down for the picture to be taken, with great effort at looking sober enough for the occasion.”

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County: Champaign Historical Society: City of Urbana Dedication Date: 2008 Location: On South Race Street south of West Main Street, on the left when traveling north. Click for map. Marker is located at the East side-walk by the Busey Bank Building and the parking lot. Website: [Web Link]

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