Strange snapshots of Abraham Lincoln

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/19/vintage-abraham-lincoln-photos.html

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[atteSmythe]

Haha, I thought at first that the second-to-last one was a prize wheel

[Otherbrother]

@pesco

curated a wonderfully weird selection of snapshots featuring Abraham Lincoln.

So how did some variation of this photo not make the cut?

[Brainspore]

Is this one a primitive animatronic too, I wonder?

If humanity is ever attacked by mechanical race of Abrahams Lincoln I only hope that they scream “E-MAN-CI-PATE! E-MAN-CI-PATE!” as they chase people around.

[Otherbrother]

@Brainspore

Is this one a primitive animatronic too, I wonder?

Honestly that looks to me like a real guy with some kind of bald cap and fake hair/beard.

[generic_name]

[chgoliz]

Logan’s Run, right?

[KathyPartdeux]

I’m partial to the “Lincoln Sphinx”.

Very mysterious.

[FGD135]

[milliefink]

His best decade was definitely the Sixties.

[Brainspore]

Just opposite that bust is a Sphinx of President Grant, and if you try to walk past them with unpatriotic thoughts in your heart they shoot laser beams at you from their eye sockets.

[FGD135]

Is Abraham Lincoln in the Wrestling Hall of Fame?

Yes and no.

[generic_name]

[tcg550]

For some reason Melvin Belli came to mind.

[FSogol]

Looks like he’s wearing Ray Bans.

[KathyPartdeux]

[Bunbain]

Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about snapshots of the literal living man himself?
e.g.,
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg

[FGD135]

[atteSmythe]

Yeesh, that Pinkerton guy has malice in his eyes, and he’s the one protecting Lincoln