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Creation Date
5-1-2005
Description
Lincoln's children at play in his law office in Springfield.
William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, complained that while Lincoln reclined to read newspapers (as he does in this depiction), he allowed his children to do whatever they pleased in the office. Herndon later recalled that Lincoln's children could have "s[hi]t in Lincoln's hat and rubbed it on his boots, [and] he would have laughed and thought it smart."
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Photos and text © Gleaves Whitney 2005
