[President-elect Abraham Lincoln raising a flag at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in honor of the new star added for the admission of Kansas to the Union on Washington's Birthday, February 22, 1861]

"Soldiers at attention and men and boys perched in the trees watch Lincoln hoist the stars and stripes at Independence Hall. Lincoln stands, hat off, directly above the single star on the extreme left of the draped flag. His son Tad, hat on, rests his arm on the rail above the cluster of stars on the right." The original image was taken during Lincoln's journey to Washington for the inauguration and is one of three images in the first set of photos of the president- elect, taken shortly after sunrise. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 73-4)
H121453 U.S. Copyright Office
McGinn & Co., copyright claimant, 1909.

Ostendorf, no. 47
Meserve, no. 103
Reference print in Presidential File Lincoln, Abraham Portraits Meserve no. 103.
Copyright deposit, Jan. 11, 1909.
Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 72-73.