LINCOLN'S SMILE ON NEW PENNY
Lincoln's Smile on New Penny THIS is a photograph of the Lincoln face that will appear on the new pennies now being coined in the government mints. Notice that it is a smiling face. When it was...
...The kindly, sympathetic smile that lights up so wonderfully this "one of the world's old, lengendary faces" will be carried on the new penny into millions of homes, even to the humblest, as a daily inspi-ration and a reminder of the "sacred lesson of Lincoln's life...
...Victor D. Brenner, the sculptor who designed the new penny, after a long search, found this picture in the collection of Eliot Norton of New York...
...When it was decided to substitute a portrait of the Great Emancipator for the familiar Indian head, on one-cent coins, this photograph was chosen rather than one showing Lincoln's face in sad repose...
...and finally pictured Lincoln as he would appear when talking to a little child...
...In modeling the face from it, he tried to imagine something that would bring a smile to Lincoln's face...
Vol. 1 • July 1909 • No. 28
