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Barack Obama was the first president to have his portrait taken with a digital camera in January 2009 by Pete Souza, the then–official White House photographer, [23] using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. [citation needed] Obama was also the first president to have 3D portraits taken, which were displayed in the Smithsonian Castle in December 2014. [24]
New York, New York Carte-de-visite printed by Brady's gallery from a lost copy negative of a retouched original print Library of Congress Mathew Brady's first photograph of Lincoln, on the day of the Cooper Union speech. Over the following weeks, newspapers and magazines gave full accounts of the event, noting the high spirits of the crowd and ...
1789: President Washington. After being named the first President of the United States, George Washington took his oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City.
30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still Mesmerize Us Today. ... First Class Dining Room, Ca. 1910. ... New York City.
First Capitol Inauguration, 1829: 1974 Allyn Cox "Cox Corridors", U.S. Capitol Building: Oil on canvas [103] First Cornerstone: 1793 Caleb Bentley: United States Capitol: Marble [104] First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln: 1864 Francis Bicknell Carpenter: United States Capitol: Oil on canvas [105] First Library of ...
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In 1955, the first city institution to commit to be part of the Lincoln Square Renewal Project, an effort to revitalize the city's west side with a new performing arts complex that would become the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, was the Fordham Law School of Fordham University. [23]
Francis Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830 – May 23, 1900) was an American painter born in Homer, New York.Carpenter is best known for his painting First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, which is hanging in the United States Capitol.