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Dedication of monument at Gettysburg cemetery

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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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01/01/1863
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lincoln abraham public appearances gettysburg history civil war albumen prints dedication monument cemetery abraham lincoln 1863 19th century history of pennsylvania american civil war lot 4167 civil war glass negatives and related prints photo gettysburg cemetery ultra high resolution high resolution glass negatives military colonel flag united states history crowd civil war photos public domain library of congress