I had not seen this
Seen on the interwebs earlier today, the oldest known photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Proving that he wasn’t always a freaky-looking dude. Of portrait photography, the robot says: “the practice became common for the middle class during the 1840s, and by the 1850s–1860s it was a routine part of American life.”
He was born in 1809, so in his thirties or forties here. He was 56 when he was elected president. I guess it was a hard twenty years.
November 2, 2026 — 5:47 pm
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