Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother – A Sensation Story
Title: Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother – A Sensation Story
Year: 1860
Creator: Bunker
Description: A tall, beardless Abraham Lincoln leans over, a short, pudgy Stephen Douglas with a “Kansas” feather sprouting from his hat. Lincoln, supported by an axed in his left hand, suggests that splitting rails was a better route to the Presidency, than Douglas’s support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Kansas statehood. The White House is a sketchy presence in the background.