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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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e required to fabricatea pair of shoes by the aid of 210 pair of hands. * * * 6—To keep pearl buttons freefrom discoloration before use, they should be sprinkled wellwith powdered Magnesia andallowed to remain in their orig-inal wrapping or box, prefer-ably in a darkened receptacle. 7—The navy custom of sewing 13buttons across the top of sail-or pants was conceived by tai-lors many years ago to repre-sent the 13 original colonies. * * * 8—Astrachan is now fabricated bythe use of a soft curled yarnin close imitation of the orig-inal or pelts of the younglamb native of the Providenceof Astrakhana. * * * 9—To state that one is in vogueoriginated with the Frenchterm voguer, meaning torow, sail, or be wafted, hencevogue means to go with thecurrent or tide. * * * 10—We get the term worsted, asapplied to yarn or thread,from the fact that it was firstmade in Worstead, England,about the 15th Century, thespelling of the town at thattime being Worsted. Footprints on the Sands of Time m
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Abraham Lincoln not only left his footprint* on the sand*„/ time—he also left them on thi» paper. It s a sketch of hisfeet drawn by Lincoln himself so that a cobbler friend couldmake him up a pair of shoes. The foot map w*™.brLincoln in the White House December 13, 1864. The blueprint was given to E. Blumenstine. T2 South Third street, bya friend about 20 rears ago, and he is shown looking over themomenta as his part in the Lincoln Day observance. Lincoln s sketch disclosed his left foot was 12 and a halfinches long but his right foot exactly 12 inches On the rightfool at one place. Lincoln made a notation that the Widthshould be eight inches there instead of seven and a half lean-ing to the belief he had a bunion or some other foot ailment. LINCOLN FEET WHEN Longfellow wrote thoselines about great men leavingbehind them footprints on thesands of time, he certainlycouldnt have known that a set ofAbraham Lincolns footprints ona piece of paper would be a cher-ished possession of

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