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Depicted ContentLincoln and Douglas hold their first debate in Ottawa, Illinois
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photograph
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Public Square at Ottawa The stand for the public speaking was erected in that part of the square shown in the foreground
Source citation
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Arnold Douglas, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, ed. Edwin Earle Sparks (Springfield, IL: The Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1908), Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, 3; Lincoln Series, 1: facing page 86.