An Amazing Photograph.

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This is a restored photograph.
It is dated November, 1863.
The inset figure is Abraham Lincoln, who had just arrived at Gettysburg to deliver his short Address. (After the main speaker had bored the audience to near-death with three hours of verbiage.)
Next to the President is his eccentric bodyguard, who was not on duty on the occasion of the President's fatal visit to Ford's Theatre in 1865.
Apparently, the press were not too impressed with the Address until they realized the depth of the chord it had struck with the general public.

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This is the photgraph. How didi they get him to stay still for 30 minutes?

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[jody]

a very historic image indeed

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That would interest you, Jody.
It would have been taken with a glass plate. Men couldn't scratch their beards, or horses (except Traveller) be allowed to swish their tails.

[jody]

I did study some of this when I was doing my courses. One of my teachers had some very old cameras that we got to look at....and yes, having to hold still for so long would have been miserable. They would even slide hidden pieces of wood onto various parts of the body to help hold you still.