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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln went to Cooper Union in New York to
deliver the speech that would launch his national political
career and help him secure the Republican presidential
nomination. But before the speech, Lincoln marked the occasion
by stopping at the studio of portrait photographer Mathew Brady,
and this photograph helped launch Lincoln toward the presidency.
Lincoln understood the power of the relatively new technology of
photography. He sat for Brady many times during his presidency,
and Brady's portraits are etched in our minds - and in our
pockets: The portraits were used for engravings on the penny and
the $5 bill. Today's world leaders also understand the value of
a...