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the present and the future to tell big stories

" Times staff photographer Neal Boenzi captured him in and around Central Park as he attempted to persuade "several hundred pounds of dog flesh" by tugging the reins and issuing occasional vocal commands

when Times staff photographer Arthur Brower took this picture

could eat the meal directly out of the same tray

Lincoln at Antietam square ''He (Ruth) came over toPresident Abraham Lincoln, between Maj. Allan Pinkerton of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and Gen. John A. McClernand, visits the Union camp at Sharpsburg, Md., on Oct. 3, 1862, a few weeks after the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln was there to persuade Gen. George McClellan to take his army on the attack against Gen. Robert E. Lee. Pinkerton was Lincoln's bodyguard.