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TITLE:  Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, March 4, 1861

CALL NUMBER:  LOT 12251, p. 59 [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-07636 (digital file from original)
LC-USZ62-48090 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY:  Photograph shows participants and crowd at the first inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Lincoln is standing under the wood canopy, at the front, midway between the left and center posts. His face is in shadow but the white shirt front is visible. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 87)
"A distant photograph from a special platform by an unknown photographer, in front of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., afternoon of March 4, 1861. 'A small camera was directly in front of Mr. Lincoln,' reported a newspaper, 'another at a distance of a hundred yards, and a third of huge dimensions on the right ... The three photographers present had plenty of time to take pictures, yet only the distant views have survived." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 86-87)

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : salted paper ; 33 x 36 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [Washington, D.C., 1861]

NOTES:

Title from item.

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 59.

Ostendorf, no. 54

Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2, Lincoln Inaugural.

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 86-87.

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

Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Inauguration, 1861.
Crowds--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870.
Presidential inaugurations--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870.

FORMAT:

Salted paper 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) ppmsca 07636 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.07636
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a48231 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a48231

CONTROL #:  00652332

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