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Is This a Real Photo of Abraham Lincoln With a Cat in ... This is a composite image that mixes prolific civil war photographer William Brady's January 1864 portrait of the U.S. president with a ...
Mathew Brady photographs Lincoln, Feb. 27, 1860 By Andrew Glass 02/27/2014 12:02 AM EST On this day in 1860, Mathew Brady photographed Abraham Lincoln before Lincoln spoke at New York’s Cooper ...
Braun’s forensic work to determine the authenticity of the photo is featured in Discovery’s special, “The Lost Lincoln,” which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. Others are skeptical.
Later, during the war, Lincoln was to continue to welcome photographers into his retinue because, as Widmer notes, he “understood that they were helping him a great deal as he tried to give the ...
Six years ago, amateur historian John Richter rocked the world of Civil War scholars when he downloaded a series of digital photos showing the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery on Nov ...
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library announced the find today. The library has only one other photo of a black Civil War soldier, and his name is a mystery. The faded photo of Hughes was taken ...
A picture of Mary Todd Lincoln appeared to show former President Abraham Lincoln's ghost standing behind her nearly seven years after he was assassinated. Jordan Liles Published Feb. 3, 2021 ...
The Illinois dentist who has the photo told Braun it was passed down by relatives of Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, until it was sold to a Civil War buff in 1986. That man claimed his ex-wife ...
This photo, provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports after ...