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===Photographs=== [[File:Crowd of citizens, soldiers, and etc. with Lincoln at Gettysburg. - NARA - 529085 -crop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|The [[David Bachrach|Bachrach]] photo, including a red arrow indicating Lincoln's presence, taken several hours before Lincoln rose and delivered the Gettysburg Address]] The only known and confirmed photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg,<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Library of Congress|url=http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/exhibitionitems/ExhibitObjects/LincolnOnPlatform.aspx?sc_id=wikip|title=The Only Known Photograph of President Lincoln at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863|access-date=September 15, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105105115/http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/exhibitionitems/ExhibitObjects/LincolnOnPlatform.aspx?sc_id=wikip|archive-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref> was taken by photographer [[David Bachrach]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bachrach in the news|publisher=Bachrach photography|url=http://www.bachrachinc.com/html/in_the_news.html|access-date=December 3, 2007|archive-date=July 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707203611/http://www.bachrachinc.com/html/in_the_news.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lincoln's presence in the photo was identified in 1952 by Josephine Cobb, an archivist who enlarged a mislabeled glass plate negative, which revealed Lincoln's presence in the photo that was then on display at [[Mathew Brady]]'s collection of photographic plates at the [[National Archives and Records Administration]].<ref>[https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/lincoln-lore/the-woman-who-found-lincoln-at-gettysburg-josephine-cobb-of-the-national-archives/]</ref> While Lincoln's speech was short and may have precluded multiple pictures of him while speaking, he and the other dignitaries sat for hours during the rest of the program. A popular explanation for the Bachrach photo suggests that Lincoln's brief address, which followed a lengthy two hour speech by Everett, caught photographers by surprise. As a result, they supposedly were able to only take a photo of Lincoln after his speech had ended. This theory, however, has been questioned, since evidence exists suggesting that the photo was possibly taken before the Gettysburg Address and without any intention of photographing Lincoln from such a lengthy distance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Woman Who Found Lincoln at Gettysburg: Josephine Cobb of the National Archives |url=https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/lincoln-lore/the-woman-who-found-lincoln-at-gettysburg-josephine-cobb-of-the-national-archives/ |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Friends of the Lincoln Collection |language=en}}</ref>
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