Only Known Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg

These modern prints showing the crowd around the platform at Gettysburg and a detail from that picture of President Lincoln on the platform were made from the original glass plate negative at the National Archives. The plate lay unidentified in the Archives for some fifty-five years until in 1952, Josephine Cobb, Chief of the Still Pictures Branch, recognized Lincoln in the center of the detail, head bared and probably seated. To the immediate left (Lincoln’s right) is Lincoln’s bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, and to the far right (beyond the limits of the detail) is Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Cobb estimated that the photograph was taken about noontime, just after Lincoln arrived at the site and before Edward Everett’s arrival, and some three hours before Lincoln gave his now famous address.

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6 Responses to “Only Known Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg”

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   heather says:

   5/13/2010 at 1:49 pm

   BORING!

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   Victoria says:

   5/14/2010 at 11:11 am

   You can’t really see it. That sucks seens it’s the only known photo.

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   Wil Edison says:

   12/26/2010 at 8:26 pm

   What was Josephines Cobbs full name???

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   bob says:

   7/28/2011 at 5:17 am

   The kid on the left in the third photo is a time traveller

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   christopher says:

   9/25/2011 at 12:05 pm

   Yes unless that photo has been tampered with as in the boy standing there, added in after the fact. If you notice as I do that in some way he just looks out of place and the hair style looks of the 71′ era style. Look at it again. I believe it to be as said! He just looks out of place to me?

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     Tim says:

     12/28/2011 at 12:13 am

     1971 era hair style? That’s pretty specific. So you can tell the exact year of a hair style from a grainy black & white photo, of a kid with a hat on no less? I know you probably listened to an Andrew Basiago interview, like many of us have, but dude.. Please. :)

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