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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 ...
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]
On April 15, 1861, Abraham Lincoln called up 75,000 militiamen to put down an insurrection of southern states after Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter on April 12–14, 1861. Mathew B. Brady, one of the preeminent photographers of the day, secured permission from President Lincoln to follow the troops, for what everyone thought would be a ...
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. [1] It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. [1]
"By the 1960s, portrait studios were routinely offering color photographic prints from color negatives." #25 Panorama Of The Seven Bridges, Paris, Ca. 1895 Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
First president from the state of New York. [99] First president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject. [100] First president to have multiple members of the same party (Whig) run against him. [101] First president to receive over 1 million votes in an election while in office. [102]
Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...