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...proudest possessions in Dayton's public library museum has been a rare portrait of Abraham Lincoln without his beard. A small, clearly drawn painting, it was by a local artist named Charles W. Nickum, who, so the story went, got Lincoln to pose for him one day on a swing through Ohio in the late 1850s. A committee of Dayton's citizens gave Artist Nickum's widow $1,000 for it in 1928, and the museum has swellingly displayed it for the edification of Lincoln fans ever since...
...photograph of Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in 1860. Chemicals were applied, a bit of the oil wiped off, and sure enough, hidden under the paint was a print of Brady's old photo. Red-faced museum officials thought it just possible that there might be a real Nickum original somewhere, sputtered that their retouched Brady would continue to occupy its honored spot "until this is cleared...
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