View of a Crowd Outside of the Chicago Convention Center Known as the Wigwam Which Was Built For the Republican National Convention of 1860 Where Abraham Lincoln Was Nominated to be the Republican Party Presidential Candidate (1860)

View of a crowd outside of the Chicago convention center known as the Wigwam which was built for the Republican National Convention of 1860 where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican Party presidential candidate, c. 1860. It was a temporary wooden structure that could hold around 12,000 people. Photograph by Alexander Hessler.

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