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President Lincoln visited Gardner's studio one Sunday in February 1865, the final year of the Civil War, accompanied by the American portraitist Matthew Wilson. Wilson had been commissioned to paint the president's portrait, but because Lincoln could spare so little time to pose, the artist needed recent photographs to work from.
She is the first person of color to serve in the position. Before coming to the ALPLM, she headed the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, the State of Arkansas's African-American culture and history museum. [21] [29] [19] As first lady of Illinois, Lura Lynn Ryan became a major fundraiser and the library's first chairwoman. She launched the ...
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]
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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]
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]
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes.
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