(CNN) -- Picture a mansion on an estate that, before the Civil War, was a thriving Southern cotton plantation. Entering the lavish home is a tall, lanky, bearded man wearing a suit and a stovepipe hat. Sound familiar? Next, another man dressed as Abraham Lincoln arrives -- also tall and bearded -- with the same hat. Then a third. And a fourth. Yep, what we have here is an honest-to-goodness convention of Lincoln lookalikes. Photographer T.J. Kirkpatrick documented this annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters in April. His images remind us how iconic the 16th President of the United States continues to be, 149 years after his assassination.
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Photographer T.J. Kirkpatrick documented a convention of Abraham Lincoln lookalikes
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He traveled to Mississippi for a meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters
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View high-resolution photos of Kirkpatrick's Lincoln Presenters project
The comment, Kirkpatrick said, "gave a broader context to this gathering -- that there was so much history that gets ignored or brushed under the table when we see a person portraying Lincoln ... or we go to a @placeholder re-enactment.