ABRAHAM LINCOLN in 3-D
I see no reason to give my fellow flickr members one of the standard "History Book Photos" of Abe Lincoln with his hair neatly combed, when instead I can give you a real 3-D image taken with a real stereo camera --- with the added bonus of a full-headed shock of thick, spikey hair over that busy, complex, and burdened brain of his.
In fact, this has got to be one of the coolest shots of a Presidential Hair-do ever ! Use the ALL SIZES button to see it in all it's glory....and to look right into his eyes as well. Believe me, it's better than visiting the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC....unless you like big statues in impressive settings --- in which case we can call it even.
ATTRIBUTION
This is a flat-bed scan of an original ca.1920s KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY curved-mount, silver-print stereoview that was printed from a copy negative made directly from a 60-some year old rare albumen print in the Library of Congress. Photographed by LEWIS EMORY WALKER around February 1865, it was originaly published by ANTHONY. It's the last known stereoview of him before he was assassinated .
See the rare original, as well as the technical details surrounding the image here : www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3253742804/
The exposure / printing difference between the two halves of this stereo image is (unfortunately) like this on my original 1920s Keystone print, and I have not messed with it here. You anaglyph makers and CC users can make the adjustments with your own editing programs.
Fortunately, the brain "auto adjusts" the difference when viewing it in 3-D, so there should be no problem. Of course, if one half was to be used for a standard 2-D book illustration, the LEFT print would be the one to go with.
As for the man himself, according to several 1860-70s History Books written and published in the SOUTHERN STATES of America, he was the Devil Incarnate.
Books written outside that sphere of influence all tend to differ with
the "Southern consensus"
....calling him one of the greatest, if not THE greatest President
America ever had.
However, one of my brother-in-laws from south of the Mason-Dixon Line still adheres to the 1860s negative opinion. Old animosities seem to have a way of living on forever, or at the very least, take a long time to die.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
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THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS (As carved in stone on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC) By Abraham Lincoln.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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From the comments below, flickr poster E-Shizzle says, "......I firmly believe that people in this 21st Century would not be able to bear the burdens of the Civil War. Today it makes the news (and well it should) if one soldier dies in Iraq or Afghanistan - imagine the modern media covering Gettysburg or Shiloh. How would CNN or Fox News process the fact that 51,000 Americans had been killed, wounded or captured in THREE DAYS? How would people react today if they had live satellite feed of the bodies stacked like cordwood in the Sunken Road at Antietam, or dead soldiers who carpeted the Wheatfield at Gettysburg? The war would have ended very quickly......."
Comments and faves
Camerist Obscured, Martin Yang, simonstudionyc, reverendross, and 29 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Numinous.ca (47 months ago | reply)
Great hair, I was wondering about the top of his right ear, it looks like he has three ear rings/piercings.
So what, I don't know.
Rea Family (47 months ago | reply)
While I was modifying the image to bring it into the anaglyph program, I was so struck by the ear, I couldn't finish. Now I am looking at hundreds of pictures of Lincoln. Maybe he was an alien??? Or a really early punk rocker??
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
At first I thought they were tufts of hair. Now, after reading the two comments above, I have been converted ! My GOD......it's President STING ! Now I am glad I posted this one. I learn more valuable stuff from the comments than can be found in 1000 books by stuffy history professors. Now, as I fall asleep on my pillow, I will drift off into time....President Sting....President Sting......you gave it all up to lead the country...........
jackie ramo (47 months ago | reply)
Funny conversation. I was thinking as I looked at the picture he looks like the pierced guy who was begging outside the restuarant tonight!!! All Lincoln needs is a few nose spikes.
only1tanuki (47 months ago | reply)
This is just Brilliant.
David C. Foster (47 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Ernie Eye-Vee [deleted] (47 months ago | reply)
Great photo of Lincoln....looks like he was in the middle of a bad day at the office. ("McLellan is doing what now? Why can't I move him!") One of those candid shots, perhaps?
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
I'm glad that war is long over. I'd hate to be living through it now !
Ernie Eye-Vee [deleted] (47 months ago | reply)
I firmly believe that people in this 21st Century would not be able to bear the burdens of the Civil War. Today it makes the news (and well it should) if one soldier dies in Iraq or Afghanistan - imagine the modern media covering Gettysburg or Shiloh. How would CNN or Fox News process the fact that 51,000 Americans had been killed, wounded or captured in THREE DAYS? How would people react today if they had live satellite feed of the bodies stacked like cordwood in the Sunken Road at Antietam, or dead soldiers who carpeted the Wheatfield at Gettysburg? The war would have ended very quickly.
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
Jeeez. Every American should read what you just said.
Ernie Eye-Vee [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)
Thanks, Okinawa Soba. One of my uncles made that observation once. He was a Corpsman, attached to the Marines at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Sometimes he talks about it. My grandfather served in Pacific Theatre of WW2, also told stories of what war was like. We (the public) see war in little spoon fed doses via Fox, CNN, or BBC. We don't smell it or see it in its raw, unvarnished horror.
These photos of the Civil War still speak to us. Look into the face of Lincoln and see a man who wanted desperately for that war to end, which is why he was so involved in the execution of plans, etc. Lincoln was a man who grieved the loss of every soldier, and wanted nothing more than to stop the killing and get the country back together. How cruel that a fanatical murderer put a bullet into him just as peace was beginning.
David C. Foster (46 months ago | reply)
I've always wondered how our country would have been if Lincoln had lived and his plan to re-unify the country without punishment of the south had taken place.
Ernie Eye-Vee [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)
Couldn't have been any worse, thats for sure. The radical Republicans in the Congress were out for blood; Lincoln was the bulwark between them and the South. Lincoln had the political mandate to push through his plan in spite of the radicals.
James_Anthonyc (39 months ago | reply)
Lincoln 's been using Edison's meth and cutting his own hair.
hookman73 (35 months ago | reply)
Great stuff, thanks!
MUSCLELOVEROZ [deleted] (35 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The White House & U.S. Presidents, and we'd love to have this added to the group!