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These are some of the only pictures of Abraham Lincoln that exist. The first image is actually not a picture, but a painting by Rossin in his American Royalty Collection.

This is by far the best rendition of Abraham Lincoln I have ever seen. It is done by Rossin and no picture exists that looks like it. It is a painting of Abraham Lincoln done in oil.

This is the first photo ever taken of Abraham Lincoln. It was taken by Nicholas Shepherd in 1847. It is one of the only photos that exists of Lincoln without a beard.

This picture of President Lincoln was taken at the battle Antietam. Allan Pinkerton seen in the left of the following photograph was a strong friend of Abraham Lincoln and even prevented an assassination attack in 1861.

Abraham Lincoln was known for his friendliness to troops and those not in “political” power. Picture of Abraham lincoln at the battle of Antietam with troops after they fought the battle.

The Ghettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.