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Depicted ContentLincoln and Douglas hold their final debate in Alton, Illinois
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Corner of City Hall, Alton, Illinois The platform from which Lincoln and Douglas spoke was erected in front of the first floor window
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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 450.