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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]
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]
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First president to appear on color television. [279] First president to deliver an address from a communications satellite – the first message from space. [280] [281] First president to visit a mosque. [282] [283] First president to have received an honorary knighthood from a foreign nation (Eisenhower received 22 such honors). [276] [284]
It was the first nonfiction book to do so in 30 years. [2] The photobiography covers Lincoln's entire life: his childhood, his stint as a lawyer, his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd Lincoln, as well as his ascent from Congressman to President. The final chapter is an account of Lincoln's assassination and death.
"After the color image is established, the black silver-based image is dissolved away, leaving the color behind." #28 The Cathedral, Amsterdam, Holland Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
This was the first inauguration to be extensively photographed, and the pictures have since become iconic. One is widely thought to show John Wilkes Booth, [citation needed] who would later assassinate Lincoln. Walt Whitman, arguably the American poet of the 19th century, reported on the inauguration for the Republican-aligned New York Times. [2]