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Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [President-elect Abraham Lincoln raising flag in front of Independence Hall in honor of admission of Kansas to the Union, February 22, 1861] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date [February 22, 1861]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 23 x 16 cm.(9 x 6.25 in.)
Description Shows Lincoln raising a large American flag while upon a flag-draped platform in front of Independence Hall. Dignitaries stand near the president, a crowd of spectators, including men in trees, surrounds the platform, and guards protect the stage.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Reproduced as a wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861, p. 145.
Reissued and copyrighted by Theodore S. Hacker in 1865.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public appearances.
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Flag raising and lowering.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Events [(3)1322.F.7b]
Accession number (3)1322.F.7b