Focus on this artwork and analyze the Legends.
It is often said that the Lincoln figure is signing his own initials in the American manual alphabet: A with his left hand, "L" with his right. The National Park Service is at best ambivalent toward the story, saying, "It takes some imagination to see signs in Lincoln's hands."
French had a deaf son
and had depicted Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet signing in the manual alphabet.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet American manual alphabet National Park Service left