The Lincoln statue placed on Bascom Hill in 1909 is the only duplicate of an original, cast in 1906, by Adolph Alexander Weinman. The original was given to Hodgenville, Ken., the town of Lincoln's birth. The Abe statue on Bascom is the single replica of Weinman's Lincoln, and is not modeled after the Lincoln statue in Washington, D.C.
I saw the statue of Lincoln in Washington, D.C., and it recently occurred to me to ask you whether the statue of Lincoln on the campus is the same statue as the one in Washington, only on a smaller scale? If it is, then if you look at Lincoln’s profile, the profile of Robert E. Lee should be recognizable in the hair at the back of Lincoln’s head. Is it?
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