The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on this 1860 campaign banner appears to have been based on a photograph taken by Alexander Hesler on June 3, 1860.
The engraving also bears a resemblance to a Lincoln portrait taken by Hesler three years earlier, in February 1857, in which Lincoln's hair appeared tousled.
According to the Library of Congress, the elaborate frame of the banner, featuring deities of Liberty and Justice, had been used earlier. The printers Baker & Godwin had created a campaign banner for Millard Fillmore's disastrous campaign on the Know-Nothing ticket in 1856 which was identical except for the central portrait of the candidate and the printed captions underneath.
