Dedication of monument at Gettysburg cemetery
Summary
Photo shows the crowd gathered for the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Penn., where President Abraham Lincoln gave his now famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. When the photo is greatly enlarged, Lincoln is visible facing the crowd, not wearing a hat, about an inch below the third flag from the left. Josephine Cobb first found Lincoln's face while working with a glass plate negative at the National Archives in 1952. (Source: NARA, Rare Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg, http://blogs.archives.gov/prologue/?p=2564)
Photographer attributions vary from unidentified (William Frassanito) to Mathew Brady (NARA) and David Bachrach (Center for Civil War Photography).
No. B1258.
Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
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