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English: Crowds surround Lincoln (hat off) at the cemetery in Gettysburg on November 19, 1863 before his speech in this only known photo of Lincoln at the event. CREDIT: “The Only Known Photograph Of President Lincoln at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863.” November 19, 1863. [Courtesy of Elizabeth L. Hill, Chief, Still Picture Branch, National Archives, and staff. Interpretive Programs Office, Library of Congress]. Note: The only photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg (big), compliments of the US Library of Congress From [1], US library of congress. Further notes: These modern prints showing the crowd around the platform at Gettysburg and a detail from that picture of President Lincoln on the platform were made from the original glass plate negative at the National Archives. The plate lay unidentified in the Archives for some fifty-five years until in 1952, Josephine Cobb, Chief of the Still Pictures Branch, recognized Lincoln in the center of the detail, head bared and probably seated. To the immediate left (Lincoln's right) is Lincoln's bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, and to the far right (beyond the limits of the detail) is Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Cobb estimated that the photograph was taken about noontime, just after Lincoln arrived at the site and before Edward Everett's arrival, and some three hours before Lincoln gave his now famous address. See also [2] See :Image:Lincolnatgettysburg.jpg for detail.