New Book "The Lincoln Family Photograph" Follows a 25-Year-Long Crusade to Prove the Authenticity of an Unknown Image of Lincoln
AMES, Iowa, May 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Bulrushes Media LLC announces the launch of, "The Lincoln Family Photograph," a book chronicling the author's 25-year-long crusade to prove the authenticity of a large 19th century photograph which he bought from an amateur collector from Boone, Iowa in 1993, Morgan believes it is a previously unknown image of Lincoln, surrounded by his family and two others, gathered in the studio of Alexander Gardner. This is a controversial and daring claim, because every photograph ever taken of Lincoln is well-known and recorded in dozens of books by Lincoln scholars about our 16th President.
If the photo is what the author claims, it would be the only existing photo of Abraham Lincoln with his family, taken in secrecy on the afternoon of Good Friday, the day Lincoln was shot--April 14, 1865.
The strength of the author's argument is all the forensic, technical work he had tech experts to do identifying and validating the features of Lincoln and the other five members in the photo--Mary Lincoln, Robert and young Tad Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley is behind Abe, and Mary Harlan--the daughter of Abe's very close friend Senator James Harlan from Iowa.
Morgan has concluded, after two decades of research, that this photograph was planned to be a formal announcement by Lincoln and family of the engagement of Robert and Mary Harlan. (They postponed the wedding for three years after the assassination.) The visit to Gardner's studio was arranged without Mary Lincoln's knowledge. On the afternoon before Lincoln was shot, Mary thought that she was just going out with her husband for a carriage ride.
The author diligently chronicles, with maps and records by witnesses, where Lincoln and Mary Todd went on Good Friday during their carriage ride when the Secret Service didn't know where they were. This book can change the history of Abraham Lincoln, especially his last day, which has been examined minute by minute (except for one to two hours in the afternoon on the final day of his life.) It will undoubtedly unleash a media storm as Lincoln fans and scholars debate where Morgan's history of that last day is true.
Books are available at the website www.bulrushesmedia.com including a book plus framed museum-quality copies of the author's photographs.
The video link below was created by an Iowa State University professor in 1996. It contains the four Lincolns from my Lincoln Family Photograph.
https://youtu.be/e1zeDAs4Biw
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