The Woman Who Found Lincoln at Gettysburg: Josephine Cobb of the National Archives

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The Woman Who Found Lincoln at Gettysburg: Josephine Cobb of the National Archives By Mark B. Pohlad National Archives For nearly ninety years there were no known photographs of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. That changed dramatically in 1952 when the intrepid Washington, D.C., archivist Josephine Cobb (1906-86) went searching—and found him. She enlarged a mislabeled […]

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