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Re: Abraham Lincoln Laying In State
The initial photos are from the great documentary "stealing lincolns body" and are cgi, the original photo is nowhere near as clear. The story goes that the secretary of war, stanton i believe his name was banned all photographs of the body, one reporter managed to get the picture when the body was in new york city hall, and the picture was seized and thought lost, a boy found it while looking through an old book in the library of congress where its thought stanton/someone hid it. The documentary is really very good and recommend it to anyone, traces the whole history of the body right up to the coffin reopening, and think interviewed the last person to see the body a little boy who said he still looked like him :-)
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06-29-2015, 05:51 PM
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Re: Abraham Lincoln Laying In State
2 ways of Arsenic:
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07-03-2015, 08:29 PM
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Also, it's worthwhile to read the book "Stealing Lincoln's Body" by Thomas J. Craughwell (he appears in the above mentioned documentary).
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08-22-2017, 02:58 PM
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He was embalmed so many times that's why he looked so good... Also... I was watching a documentary on Lincoln and it is said that he is buried underneath the tall monument in D.C.
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12-24-2024, 04:46 AM
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Re: Abraham Lincoln Laying In State
What a shame! He was my favourite president. I hope he and Mary Todd Lincoln and family are at rest, finally. charlie4  |
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12-24-2024, 10:17 PM
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Re: Abraham Lincoln Laying In State
If you go to the Milwaukee Museum, they have a bunch of displays of native Wisconsin animals, such as foxes, otters, beavers, etc. All of the displays were done in the very early 1900's, and they STILL look very life-like. I saw an article on them once, and one of the curators at the museum said the reason they look so good is that they were treated with arsenic when being prepared by the taxidermist for the display. I forget his name, but he was renowned nationally for his museum displays. They are over 100 years old today, but look just as good as the day they were prepared for display. There is a LOT of taxidermy on display, including a group of Indians hunting buffalo on one of the floors of the museum dedicated to the different Indian tribes in Wisconsin. (The Native Americans are NOT stuffed, but the horses and buffalo are.) Better living through chemistry!  |
