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Lincoln replied that he intended to stay near home during the campaign and could not come to Chicago, but if Hesler would visit Springfield, he would be willing to pose and would even get dressed up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504100993337-Y8KL9RIEARAKW1OUHUPE/lincoln5.JPG Exhibits - 1860 This is a retouched image taken by C.S. German on January 13 or 20, as Lincoln signed a print on January 26th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504101110861-T44M1FRZUCRXR2RKIC7E/lincoln6.JPG Exhibits - 1861 This is one of several poses taken by Mathew BB Brady and his assistant Alexander Gardner on February 23, 1861. It is the first accurate portrait that has been published since he began to grow a beard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504111499188-4J8I3GLK6QA8KRO8AXRJ/lincoln7.JPG Exhibits - 1861 Lincoln inscribed this portrait on October 3, 1861 ― For Mrs. Lucy G. Speed from whose pious hands I accepted the present of an Oxford Bible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504111573257-8NPVW3GZLF3C1HOYMHDR/lincoln8.JPG Exhibits - 1863 It is said that Lincoln was Alexander Gardner’s first client when the pho-tographer opened his studio in Washington. This is one of several photo-graphs taken on August 9, 1863. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504111195615-0HHEUYNXTSXRZ7744MD6/lincoln9.1.JPG Exhibits - 1863 By Alexander Gardner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504111348777-7WKQ6CI7F4LGL1AXKS0K/lincoln10.JPG Exhibits - 1864 Cabinet card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504111806284-HOA5O4IG6AD105ON34SU/lincoln10.1.JPG Exhibits - 1864 This was perhaps the most elaborate sitting Lincoln granted to Brady. He took his son Tad with him and soon the photograph of the two of them together was soon in many thousand homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504111961722-PPEWR8E1LAHPVSGMIGHB/lincoln11.JPG Exhibits - 1865 National Inauguration Ball invitation to Mrs. M. M. Grannis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504112018551-3QYUBH67QMP9DMWRGG83/lincoln12.JPG Exhibits - 1865 On March 4, Linclon was inaugurated for the second time. Two days later the photographer Henry F. Warren from Waltham Mass., came to the White House and was allowed to take this portrait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504112171063-V26TFKWWD6NLNSQUXNSW/lincoln13.JPG Exhibits - 1865 President Lincoln and his son Thaddeus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1504112292952-KYK60Q3PU6TRPMSRDUTZ/lincoln14.JPG Exhibits - 1865 Death of Abraham Lincoln https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1692986328923-XNB90CFRTB6M6M73RIOE/Exhibits_Cover.jpg Exhibits https://photoantiquities.org/cameras daily 0.75 2023-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1513284895106-OIMWAOQCRLKA7774D5KR/01.jpg Cameras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1513284895164-3VTR99RO22B5W3G7PL77/02.jpg Cameras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1513284895936-JOJ75K1LS8Q7B31WLPDZ/03.jpg Cameras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1513284895938-FDL8R755MBG3B4TR93WS/04.jpg Cameras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1513284896406-TPMWRMDAE5XSXCXGXKYR/05.jpg Cameras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1692986259063-94J0VOUP82W7A22ZCEEO/CameraRoom_Cover.jpg Cameras https://photoantiquities.org/pittsburgh daily 0.75 2017-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505400535052-DBS9QE6TX9H5EISQY1E8/harrison.jpg Pittsburgh - 1841 En route to Washington for his inauguration, President-elect William H. Harrison visited the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505400186622-PPH2498A10MAMNV79RFA/0_1842_DSC_8164.JPG Pittsburgh - March 20, 1842 Charles Dickens, the English author, arrived with his wife at the Exchange Hotel, Penn Avenue at Sixth, for a three-day visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505400372656-LIR98MH8CMD5WZWHBIPC/Gretton9.jpg Pittsburgh - 1846 The covered wooden bridge over the Monongahela River at Smithfield Street was replaced by a wire suspension one, the first so constructed by John Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505401249295-HIQMGVOXB5F0JI9FB1S1/2.jpg Pittsburgh - 1849 A second cut, this one seven feet, was made in the "Hump." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505401299638-1GWH7LZ4MMHZPGCQGMF9/Gretton7_brightened.jpg Pittsburgh - 1849 Puddlers and boilers in iron mills began a five-month strike in protest against a reduction in wages; this action led to later organization of the Sons of Vulcan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505414238553-MG5ORX15M3EBEYT0W994/Gretton28_cropped.jpg Pittsburgh - 1884 Jones and Laughlin Gas Well, located at 26th Street in the mill yard. First gas well to be drilled in Pittsburgh. Note Limited Lumber Yard sign on adjoining property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505412673769-H3VBHPI1Y9G2DGDH39BP/Gretton27.jpg Pittsburgh - 1885 Lance's Brick Yard Showing the location of Jones and Laughlin in the 24th Ward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505413942173-6KEG5NVE30HSTDS0ENH0/Gretton24.jpg Pittsburgh - 1885 Brilliant Hill Waterworks July 1885 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411559905-LG0FP5WY4MS56K3AON3Z/Gretton16.jpg Pittsburgh - 1885 Old 24th Ward Showing Old Bessie Track over which coal was hauled from coal mine to mill in the background St Peters Church in the Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505413204595-MZL4056Q3J56771B3W7O/Gretton10.jpg Pittsburgh - 1886 This class of blooming mill engine is generally used in the Pittsburgh district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505402082552-0FEKM6KTOHMPA5JFG13M/Gretton6-2.jpg Pittsburgh - 1886 Jones and Laughlin constructed two seven-ton Bessemer converters at the South Side plant for the job of making its first steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411512797-ACKMB7HT6ZMDHSAUKDCT/Gretton25.jpg Pittsburgh - 1886 Brownstown from hill above Second Ave. Jones and Laughlin on right of picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505414289401-YZ5BAO2EVDPBKFILEUQA/Gretton29.jpg Pittsburgh - 1887 Erecting bridge over the Monongahela River connectingthe Blast Furnace with Mill Jones and Laughlin. Note old style boiler on bridge to the left of center pier, also men working on bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411632230-H7G8ULJODRS83GM5RL1Z/Gretton18.jpg Pittsburgh - 1887 Unloading Coal from old wooden barges Elizabeth blast furnace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505402126859-A65LB6WNAC2UVUGNSJWE/Gretton13.jpg Pittsburgh - 1888 The new Allegheny County courthouse and jail, designed by H. H. Richardson, was dedicated on the final day of the county's centennial anniversary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505402184138-TTMV22OCAWRNDDJJOENH/Gretton14.jpg Pittsburgh - 1889 Pittsburgh Courthouse looking down to the Stock Yards. Allegheny County Courthouse and jail at time of dedication (note the flags flying on the tower). The official dedication of the building was July 4th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505401518292-TF4N1OY2WYGN5O41FA2I/April+25+1851+-+Jenny+Lind+2.jpg Pittsburgh - 1851 In the city's greatest musical event of the era, Jenny Lind, under the management of Phineas T. Barnum, sang at Masonic Hall, Fifth Avenue, before 1000 persons who paid an average of $7 each for tickets sold on auction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505413828915-BQA258O4NINWWDS8TRU5/Gretton23.jpg Pittsburgh - 1852 The Jones and Laughlin Steel Company began as the American Iron Company, founded in 1852 by Bernard Lauth and B. F. Jones, a few milessouth of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505401657163-WSAOABPH1DKV68RXN8UZ/Gretton27.jpg Pittsburgh - 1859 James Laughlin, a banker and merchant, built the first two Eliza blast furnaces with beehive coke ovens, on the north side of the Monongahela River, directly opposite the Jones, Lauth plant. The new plant was known as Laughlin and Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505410551369-62PCDFF840G8E4D30P6R/Gretton26.jpg Pittsburgh - 1902 The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) won a legal suit to prevent removal of the historic Blockhouse from its original site at the Point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505410614692-YU6VI62NV353QQNBEXAP/Gretton.jpg Pittsburgh - 1903 The first of baseball's modern World Series ended in Pittsburgh before 7455 persons at Exposition Park; the Pirates were defeated by Boston, 4 to 3, and lost the Series three games to five https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411140311-P7VYZ8CF9SGHWJWIVYMS/Gretton4.jpg Pittsburgh - 1907 The historic old Union Bridge, built about 1835 over the Allegheny River at the Point, was closed to traffic, and dismantling of it began. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411708034-Q0XCCSKXF4VWY5Z0W1AN/Gretton21.jpg Pittsburgh - 1908 Centennial Parade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411736652-YFKI5TIPH47YJRC9Z4AM/Gretton22.jpg Pittsburgh - 1908 Centennial Parade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505412287723-388W156WBZDFGHUB8D6B/Gretton5.jpg Pittsburgh - 1893 Ground was broken for the first Ferris wheel, invented by George Washington Ferris of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505412320394-ID4LWBU5XYYQ1A624I4M/Gretton3.jpg Pittsburgh - 1896 The city purchased the Point Bridge for $750,000 and the Smithfield Street Bridge for $1,152,583. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505412355627-M1R41PBBRGRVW5INSZ7Z/Gretton34.jpg Pittsburgh - 1898 The Edgar Thomson Steel Works began shipping rails to South Africa and Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505410919938-4FQNMHO5105ZBRN4J3W9/Gretton8_cropped.jpg Pittsburgh - 1864 Stephen Collins Foster, Pittsburgh's best-known composer, died destitute in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505411052296-YKKHM8P1N468E3FE08NT/Westinghouse_cropped.jpg Pittsburgh - 1865 George Westinghouse, at 19, received his first patent for the invention of a rotary steam engine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505414016525-XEOLQBWA8WBG894SPS0U/Gretton35.jpg Pittsburgh - 1866 Jones and Laughlin Eliza Furnace along Pittsburgh's South Side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505413124518-ZKKXEB5Q207TPZYBF648/Gretton31_cropped.jpg Pittsburgh - 1871 The monument, dedicated in 1871, honors the Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Antietam and Appomattox and the four thousand Allegheny County soldiers who died in the Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/582b663437c581c3ed139f27/1505413427126-JWJ3IWNOA5E19472KJYW/Gretton3.jpg Pittsburgh - 1877 The Point Bridge was opened in April 1877. 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