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Abraham Lincoln a the Lyric

The actor, Mr William J. Rea as Abraham Lincoln at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith in 1919, playing the lead role in the play by John Drinkwater. Photographs show Rea playing Lincoln at different stages of his career from the offer of Presidency in 1860 to his death in 1865

Picture No
13990854
Media ID
45425386
Size
3688px x 5144px (2.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photographs by Malcolm Arbuthnot in The Sketch, 11 June 1919
Date
1919

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