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Eva Elisabeth · (This post was last modified: 03-03-2015 05:13 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)

To me, the boy on the very left in the upper row, looks the most like Tad. #2 definitely not, and #4 not at all, either. I just am not sure how to read the wording in the article, as I said I would understand it as that all the five photos had been "mislabeled", but then again #1 does look like Tad to me.

RJNorton · 03-03-2015, 05:23 AM

On that link I posted if you click on the images then the boy is identified. Of the 5 photos Eva posted #1 and #3 are Tad; all others are not.

Does this new finding make the Frankfurt image the last known photo of Tad?

In my notes I have it written that this photo was taken when Mary and Tad were in Frankfurt, Germany.

Eva Elisabeth · (This post was last modified: 03-03-2015 09:54 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)

Thanks, Roger - I noticed the labeling of the photos when I downloaded them for attachment, but still I found the article so misunderstandably worded that I wasn't sure. Does anyone agree the wording could lead to the conclusion I posted above, or am I the only one? I just think it was better the article informed more precisel on the who-is-who in the photos as this is the way myths find their way into the world.

As for the Frankfurt photo - that seems the logical consequence to me, too!

RJNorton · 03-03-2015, 09:56 AM

I agree, Eva. When I first went to the page I first felt exactly as you describe in your post above. I did not understand until I started clicking on the individual photos and see how they were labeled.

Angela · 03-03-2015, 12:25 PM

I agree, that is difficult to understand.
They also made a picture-by-picture post that seems to be a bit better here:
http://lincolncollection.tumblr.com/post...n-identity

Eva Elisabeth · (This post was last modified: 03-03-2015 05:49 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)

Thanks, Roger and Angela, for your replies and "support", and for the link, Angela! This article is indeed better written and not confusing!

JEGastineau · (This post was last modified: 03-04-2015 09:58 AM by JEGastineau.)

There are five photographs of William Harlan in the Lincoln Family Album Collection that had been mistakenly identified as Tad Lincoln. The thumbnail gallery that appears with the introduction to "A Case of Mistaken Identity" (http://www.lincolncollection.org/collect...dentity/), however, includes photos of both William and Tad. Identification of and information about each of the photos in the gallery can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnail. The introductory text below the gallery has been revised to make that clearer.

Looking just at the thumbnail gallery, the first and second photos in the top row are William and the last three are Tad; in the bottom row, the first, second, and fifth photos are William.

The photos are also discussed on the Lincoln Collection Tumblr blog at http://lincolncollection.tumblr.com/post...-identity.

The Lincoln Family Album Collection is part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and can be viewed online at http://www.lincolncollection.org/search/...?q=lfa-0*.

STS Lincolnite · 03-04-2015, 07:35 PM

(03-03-2015 05:23 AM)RJNorton Wrote: On that link I posted if you click on the images then the boy is identified. Of the 5 photos Eva posted #1 and #3 are Tad; all others are not.

Does this new finding make the Frankfurt image the last known photo of Tad?

In my notes I have it written that this photo was taken when Mary and Tad were in Frankfurt, Germany.

Roger, I think you are correct that it is probably the last extant photo.

When clicking on the thumbnail from the website, the whole photo is shown (not just a facial crop). There is are the print marks on the bottom of the card with the name of the photographer (F. Weisbrod) and Frankfurt as the place. The description further states the photo was taken in 1869.