Last known picture of Abraham Lincoln

[Linda Anderson]

Kees, the thread "The Interminable, Everlasting Lincolns" includes discussion of Lincoln's last photo.

http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...-1351.html

RE: "The Interminable, Everlasting Lincolns"
Part 1

"A president’s last sittings, different interpretations of photographs, and the predispositions of storytellers vs. collectors."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/201...rt-1/?_r=0

"The story of the crack, along with the original April 9 date, was printed in The New York Times on Feb. 12, 1922. O-118 was captioned: “The President Sat for This Photograph Just Five Days Before Booth Shot Him. The Cracked Negative Caused it To Be Discarded. It Has Only Once Before Been Published, and Then in a Retouched Form.” The accompanying text by James Young read:

"Probably no other photograph of Lincoln conveys more clearly the abiding sadness of the face. The lines of time and care are deeply etched, and he has the look of a man bordering upon old age, though he was only 56. Proof that the camera was but a few feet away may be found by scrutiny of this picture… The print has been untouched, and this picture is an exact likeness of the President as he looked in the week of his death." [10]