LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President ]. ALEXANDER GARDNER Photographer . Photograph of Lincoln delivering his Second Inaugural Address, [Washington, D.C., 4 March 1865]. 366 x 470 mm. (14 3/8 x 18 1/2 in.) including mount (heavy card of early vintage), minor soiling to mount, matted. One of three or four large glass-plate views believed to have been taken by Gardner, of the East front of the Capitol during the ceremonies of Lincoln's inauguration. Meserve, pl. 90; Hamilton and Ostendorf, O-109; cf. Lorant, p.245. A justly famous image which shows Lincoln standing at a small white podium at the center of the stand, reading from a sheet of paper. He appears slightly blurred from some slight movement or gesture made as he delivered perhaps the most memorable and eloquent of Presidential inaugural addresses. At Lincoln's right, seated with legs crossed, is Vice-President elect Andrew Johnson; to Lincoln's left are the justices of the Supreme Court. A dapper man in a prominent stovepipe hat, standing on the balcony overlooking the President has been inconclusively identified as John Wilkes Booth, assassin-to-be.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President ]. ALEXANDER GARDNER Photographer . Photograph of Lincoln delivering his Second Inaugural Address, [Washington, D.C., 4 March 1865]. 366 x 470 mm. (14 3/8 x 18 1/2 in.) including mount (heavy card of early vintage), minor soiling to mount, matted. One of three or four large glass-plate views believed to have been taken by Gardner, of the East front of the Capitol during the ceremonies of Lincoln's inauguration. Meserve, pl. 90; Hamilton and Ostendorf, O-109; cf. Lorant, p.245. A justly famous image which shows Lincoln standing at a small white podium at the center of the stand, reading from a sheet of paper. He appears slightly blurred from some slight movement or gesture made as he delivered perhaps the most memorable and eloquent of Presidential inaugural addresses. At Lincoln's right, seated with legs crossed, is Vice-President elect Andrew Johnson; to Lincoln's left are the justices of the Supreme Court. A dapper man in a prominent stovepipe hat, standing on the balcony overlooking the President has been inconclusively identified as John Wilkes Booth, assassin-to-be.
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