Photo enlargement later proved her theory true, making this the first–and possibly only–photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg.*Ĭobb estimated that the photo was taken around noontime, before Edward Everett arrived, and about three hours before Lincoln delivered his famous address. His speech is revered as one of the greatest in American history, yet until Josephine Cobb looked closer at that Mathew Brady photo in 1952, it was thought that no photo existed of the Great Emancipator at Gettysburg on the day he delivered that address.īased off the placement of people, the slight elevation of a few in the center left field of the photograph, and where the crowd was looking, Cobb bet that Lincoln would be in the photo. Lincoln delivered his famous speech 147 years ago today. Moments later, a tall, gaunt Abraham Lincoln would stand up and deliver a ten sentence speech in two minutes. Edward Everett would speak from that stand later in the afternoon for two straight hours. In 1952, the chief of the Still Photo section at the National Archives, Josephine Cobb, discovered a glass plate negative taken by Mathew Brady of the speaker’s stand at Gettysburg on the day of its dedication as a National Cemetery.
The first photo discovered of Lincoln at Gettysburg Today’s post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty.
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