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Maker(s):Gardner, Alexander
Culture:American, born in Scotland (1821-1882)
Title:Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Date Made:1865, printed later
Type:Photograph
Materials:matte collodion print
Place Made:North America; United States; District of Columbia: Washington
Accession Number:  AC 1947.142
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. Grosvenor Hyde Backus (Class of 1894)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
This photograph is one of eight that Alexander Gardner took of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865), in which the president ruminated on the causes and unforeseen devastation of the war and expressed his wish for a conciliatory reunification process. To this end, Lincoln concluded with:

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Scholars disagree whether John Wilkes Booth, the popular stage actor and Lincoln’s future assassin, can be identified in Gardner’s photographs of the President’s Second Inaugural Address, which, evidence confirms, he attended.

MD, 2011

Tags:
photographs; political events; politicians; politics; crowds; black and white

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