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Title: Abraham Lincoln's appearance
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Foot Footwear
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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withpencil tho outline of tho Presidential pedals.This sheet is tho one for which I re-cently refused 51,1.00 cash. Abraham Lincoln was conaiaerably over 6feet ir. height. Ho hnd a very largo loot,The dimensions are marked in load pencil onthe shtot as follows: Heal, across instep, left 14*3 inches Samo, right U^j inches Instep, left — 9^1, inches Same, right 10*2 inch s At small toos, left 8 inches Same, right b luehes Length, left 12 inchus Same. ri;,ht l^ inches Thus it v/iil be observed that Mr. Lin-colns right foot, was half an inch longerthan his left foot. Thi3, howerer, accordingto jhoemakors, is nothing out of the com-mon. Thore was also an enlargement o£ thegreat too joint of the right foot. ThU camefrom poor shoes, worn on other occasions. Mr. Lincolns order called lor a pah otlacs shoes, made of una French calfskin.Ho later ordered hoots and button shoes, butpreferred lai o shoes to any other. Ho likedshoes with a broad, flat sola anu a low, wide hcsu _^. .. (v<; i w
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