Amateur Review of LoC Archive Yields Photos of 2nd Lincoln Inauguration
by Todd ~ January 17th, 2008. Filed under: Museums, Photojournalism.
Hot on the heels of the news that the Library of Congress is uploading images to Flickr, I ran across an article in the LA Times about newly discovered photographs of the 1865 Lincoln inauguration. I assumed the news would be about how someone ran across some old prints in an attic, but it turns out the photos were in the LoC all along, mislabeled as pictures of the crowds at Ulysses S. Grant’s inauguration. The mislabeling was discovered by a someone reviewing the work online and noticed that two similar images had very different descriptions. Strangely neither the Times or the LoC names the eagle-eyed browser, nor do they mention that the glass negatives are stereographs, which also seems remarkable.
- Library of Congress announcement
- Soldiers and crowd: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.01430
- Soldiers lining up: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00601
- Soldiers lined up: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00602
- People arriving (previously known image used for comparison): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.02927
January 18th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
The discoverer of these photos was Carl Jennings of Berthoud, Colorado. He is the founder of The American Civil War Library, a soon-to-be-opened library and research facility on the Civil War. This new facility contains around 12,000 books, 13,ooo+ photographs (including some 700 exceeding rare prints directly from Mathew Brady glass negatives. He can be reached at carljenningsjr@msn.com.
January 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Typo! 1865 Inauguration is more like it. Lyndon Johnson would be offended.