New Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg?

[bergie]

http://www.wgal.com/news/14619871/detail.html

 

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[Tricia]

It's really hard to tell but if Mr. Lincoln was arriving in the carriage at that moment, you'd think the people in the foreground of the picture would all be turned around looking toward that area too. I would think shouts of..."Here he comes, here he comes" would have been heard throughout the crowd.

Is there any provenance out there where a witness wrote a letter or had a journal entry that described being there and observing Mr. Lincoln's arrival?

Guess a Gettysburg/Lincoln expert might know.

Interesting picture though. Thanx for the "what if" moments.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Look at the first photo....lots of men wore stove pipe hats ......the second photo is the only known photo to exist(so far) of Lincoln at Gettysburg.

These modern prints showing the crowd around the platform at Gettysburg and a detail from that picture of President Lincoln on the platform were made from the original glass plate negative at the National Archives. The plate lay unidentified in the Archives for some fifty-five years until in 1952, Josephine Cobb, Chief of the Still Pictures Branch, recognized Lincoln in the center of the detail, head bared and probably seated. To the immediate left (Lincoln's right) is Lincoln's bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, and to the far right (beyond the limits of the detail) is Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Cobb estimated that the photograph was taken about noontime, just after Lincoln arrived at the site and before Edward Everett's arrival, and some three hours before Lincoln gave his now famous address.