ABE LINCOLN EVERYWHERE
Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.
If you and I drew pictures of an airplane, our airplanes wouldn’t look
the same at all. That’s because no two people draw the same thing in the
same way.
That’s true with people who make statues, too.
Look at the statues of President Abraham Lincoln, for example. He was
such a famous and popular President that many towns and cities in the
United States have statues of him.
But different sculptors have had different ideas of how Lincoln looked,
so you hardly ever find two statues of him that look alike. Some statues
show Lincoln in crowds, such as the one in which he’s debating with
Stephen A. Douglas in Illinois. Others show him standing in a dignified
pose, such as the one at the Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky. Still
others show him as a young railsplitter, such as the statue in Ewa,
Hawaii.
But the most well known statue of the famous President is the one in the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. There, a huge marble figure of
Lincoln sits in a giant marble chair.
