In a studio in New York City, aspiring presidential candidate Abe Lincoln stood for a portrait to prove he wasn't, as one newspaper called him, "the leanest, lankiest, most ungainly mass of legs ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860 ... not known to be terribly good-looking. One image helped fight the idea that Lincoln was irredeemably unattractive.

An ambrotype image of President Abraham Lincoln circa 1858. During his U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln sat for a photograph after politicking in western Illinois and ...

This photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows an ambrotype image of President Abraham Lincoln circa 1858. During his U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A.