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Standing Lincoln:
Relying on Mathew Brady's photographs and Leonard Volk's 1860 life mask, Augustus Saint-Gaudens spent four years creating for the citizens of Chicago what was universally held to be the finest Lincoln statue to date.
At is dedication in October 1887, Lincoln's friend Leonard Swett predicted that the name of Abraham Lincoln would be honored "wherever the slave shall groan under the lash, or the poor shall sigh for something better than they have now." |