Lincoln Inauguration Photos

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on January 19, 2008 at 8:39 pm


Lincoln Inauguration

The Library of Congress recently found four photographs of the crowd at President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4, 1865. The negatives of the photos had been mislabeled! In this picture, Lincoln is at the podium, almost in the middle, not wearing his stovepipe hat. Link -Thanks, Mr. Lonka!


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6 comments to "Lincoln Inauguration Photos"

  1. red
    January 20th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    It bothers me that organizations like that wont put up higher resolution images. There's no copyright on them, and yet they've made it impossible to even examine them in detail let alone use them in any form for projects (personal or otherwise)

  2. James
    January 20th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    red:

    good point! I absolutely dig ancient photos like that anyway though.

  3. Carl Huber
    January 20th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Yes, red, they're obligated to serve you at the drop of a (stovepipe) hat as soon as they find something? Maybe they're working on it. Maybe you should just try writing them a letter.

    Or, you know, you could just try searching google:
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pi022.html

  4. ted
    January 20th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

    I think that guy just in front of the stage stole his hat!

  5. Alex
    January 21st, 2008 at 1:48 am

    "Oh noes they be taking by hat," ted?

  6. Sid Morrison
    January 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 am

    @Carl-
    I guess the 11MB TIFF wasn't good enough for red.


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