These modern prints showing the crowd around the platform at Gettysburg and a detail from that picture of President Lincoln on the platform were made from the original glass plate negative at the National Archives. To the immediate left (Lincoln's right) is Lincoln's bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, and to the far right (beyond the limits of the detail) is Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Cobb estimated that the photograph was taken about noontime, just after Lincoln arrived at the site and before Edward Everett's arrival, and some three hours before Lincoln gave his now famous address.
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The Only Known Photograph of President Lincoln. at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863. Copy prints. Courtesy of Elizabeth L. Hill, Chief, Still Picture Branch, National Archives.