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    Posted: 19-Jun-2015 at 20:12
Originally posted by Nick1986

No topic would be complete without an image of Old Abe's chin curtain. He grew a beard after a little girl wrote to him and said it would make him look more distinguished

            

The name of the little girl was Grace Bedell. She was eleven at the time. She was from Westfield, New York.
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Some very characterful portraits there, thanks guys..

Even current beardies & hipsters would be proud of some of those lavishly whiskered faces..
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