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Stereo card of Burns’s birth cottage, about two miles south of Ayr, Scotland, in about 1890, by then a place of pilgrimage for more than two generations. Author’s collection. Lincoln’s log-cabin birthplace, enclosed in a Grecian temple (dedicated 1911), not far from Hodgenville, Kentucky. Administered by the National Park Service, the Abraham Lincoln Historic Site is visited by thousands of people every year. Photo by author. George Washington Brownlow (1835–76), Murdoch Instructing Burns. The original hangs in the Burns House in Dumfries, Scotland. Courtesy of the Dumfries and Galloway Council, Dumfries Museum. Young Lincoln studying by firelight. Chromolithograph published by Louis Prang and Company, after a late-nineteenth-century painting by Eastman Johnson. Courtesy of the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana. No. 4433. An American steel engraving of Burns (1859), designed to tap the excitement surrounding the celebration of the centenary of his birth. From Henry Coppee, A Gallery of Famous English and American Poets (Philadelphia: E. H. Butler and Co., 1859). Author’s collection. “MacLincoln’s Harrisburg Highland Fling,” Vanity Fair cartoon ridiculing the president’s alleged “disguised” entry into Washington in 1861. Author’s collection. A Boy Scout wreath-laying ceremony at the Lincoln statue by John Rogers in Manchester, New Hampshire, probably February 12 (?1915). Courtesy of the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana. A Lincoln forgery by Joseph Cosey, who followed in the trail of Alexander Howland “Antique” Smith, premier forger of Burns materials. Cosey was detected only because he failed to master the proper upward slant on the signature “A. Lincoln.” Author’s collection. Stamps honoring Burns and Lincoln. Many countries view Burns and Lincoln as international symbols of equality. In 1959, the Soviet Union became the first nation to place Burns’s image on a stamp (center three). The United Kingdom followed in 1966 (above left) and in 1996 (above right). A number of nations such as the Federal Republic of Cameroon (bottom) have issued commemoratives in honor of Lincoln. Photo by Kim Jew Studios from the collection of the author. Statue of Burns in New York City’s Central Park, the first erected outside Scotland. At the dedication, one speaker observed that both Lincoln and Burns were products of “the people” and that “America was trying to make the ploughman’s words true.” Harper’s Weekly, October 16, 1880. Author’s collection. The first statue to Lincoln outside the United States, erected in Scotland in 1893. Located in the Old Calton Hill Burial Ground in Edinburgh, the site reigned as a must-see venue for American tourists for years. Photo by author. Theodor Horydczak, Lincoln Memorial Statue with Children, ca. 1950. Scottish visitors, along with others, often view Daniel Chester French’s monumental statue in Washington, D.C., as the architectural heart of the American republic. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-H814-T-L05–085-B. ...