Oh, wow

[pegkerr]

A daguerreotype has been found which may be the earliest photograph of Abraham Lincoln. (Thanks to the ever eagle-eyed knitmeapony for the link.)

sistermagpie pointed it out: you know who he looks like?

Severus Snape.

Hmm . . . deprived childhood . . . lost the girl he loved and hoped to marry when he was a young man . . . derided for his looks . . . without his role, the war would have been lost . . . murdered right at the point the war was won . . .

The mind reels . . .

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Comments

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Someone totally needs to start making icons using that picture. Abraham Lincoln finds new fame!

[cryptaknight.livejournal.com]

Wow, even his outfit looks like movie!Snape's robes.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Dang. I thought it was a *new* pic of Lincoln. "Photographs of Lincoln" is an entire thing among collectors of antique photos, and so I have seen this "new" pic before.

K.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

You're NOT HELPING.

[aerden.livejournal.com]

Peg--That was an absolutely fascinating website. Thank you very much for pointing it out to me. I never knew about the head injury, the eye damage, or the facial damage, before. It is amazing how you can look at photographs of a person all your life and not notice things until you either acquire the necessary knowledge or start looking for them.

I noticed the ptosis in Lincoln's photographs the other day only because I've done medical transcription and now know the term. I noticed the raised left eyebrow without understanding that he was raising it to counteract the ptosis. I totally missed anything unusual about the left side of his face until that website pointed it out, and I started looking through other photographs of him. Amazing. It's been there all this time, all my life, and I never observed.

As for the Snape coincidences...*giggles helplessly*

Chantal

[emerdavid.livejournal.com]

Now, if Professor Snape had a teaching assistant named Johnson....

[aerden.livejournal.com]

And an adoring student named Mary Todd, who has a horrendous crush on him...