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TITLE:  Crowd at Lincoln's second inauguration, March 4, 1865

CALL NUMBER:  LOT 5908 [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsc-02927 (digital file from original item)
LC-USZ62-7812 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Photo shows a large crowd of people waiting during President Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, which was held on a rainy day at the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. The crowd includes African American troops who marched in the inaugural parade. In considering the Civil War that had begun in 1861 and was nearing conclusion, Lincoln ended his speech with the famous phrase: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : albumen ; ca. 4 x 4 1/4 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [Washington, D.C., 1865]

NOTES:

Title from item.

Gift of; Louis M. Rabinowitz; March 27, 1952.

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 200.

Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Inauguration, 1865.
Crowds--1860-1870.
Presidential inaugurations--1860-1870.

FORMAT:

Albumen prints 1860-1870.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original) ppmsc 02927 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.02927
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a10449 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a10449

CONTROL #:  00650929



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