Long an admirer of historical figures, Charles Turzak’s first biographical volume, Abraham Lincoln: Biography in Woodcuts, tells its story only through pictures. He cut the thirty-six wood blocks for the images while in public view at the 1933 Century of Progress, Chicago World’s Fair in the Lincoln Village. This image shows a grieved Lincoln, with his head bowed and his hand pressed against a map of the United States, yearning for a unified country in the midst of the American Civil War.
