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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7352797, member: 10461&quot;]You do not have a camera.&nbsp; Only the 19th century clothes you brought with you (which you bought from an old trunk in a 21st century antique auction), and the dime you found when you got to 1865.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, <a href="https://historyarchive.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/lincolns-last-visit-to-harrisburg-pa-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://historyarchive.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/lincolns-last-visit-to-harrisburg-pa-2/" rel="nofollow">in Harrisburg</a>, you meet a photographer who managed to take a few hurried photos of Lincoln lying in state in his coffin.&nbsp; He tells you he usually sells his photographs for one to five dollars each, but given that he got himself in a little bit of trouble for photographing the late president&#039;s body without permission (not an easy thing to do surreptitiously with the camera equipment of the time), and he wants to get rid of the photos before he gets in trouble, he agrees to sell you one for the dime.&nbsp; He is glad to be rid of it.&nbsp; Says one of the soldiers almost bayoneted him, and he was lucky they didn&#039;t seize his camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a small tintype and quite blurred (the photographer was rushed and had to move during the exposure), but it is clear enough to see that yes, that is indeed President Lincoln lying there.&nbsp; When you return to 2021 with the photo, it causes quite a stir, as did <a href="http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/rietveld.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/rietveld.htm" rel="nofollow">the first such rare photo</a> when it was discovered.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=111388]@serdogthehound[/USER] is a finalist in the contest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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