"The only verified photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg ..." Topic

…not the only one claims an Assistant Professor.

"After the great victory of the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg, 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln had defined democracy as a government of the people, by the people & for the people at the famous Gettysburg Address. Since then it has become the most quoted speech in the history of America. The camera never lies; it can reveal history even after 150 years. An assistant professor of University of North Carolina-Asheville, Christopher Oakley thinks so as he claims an Abraham Lincoln photo find of the last 61 years. The smithsonianmag.com reports:

Former Disney animator Oakley along with undergraduate researchers have been working on a 3-D animation project called Virtual Lincoln for the last two years. The digital image reproduction and animation project is scheduled to be completed before 19th November, 2013, the 150th anniversary of the historical Lincoln speech. Oakley was studying one of the Gettysburg Address images captured by famous civil war photographer Alexander Gardner. While capturing the image 150 years ago, Gardner used a new technique of the time called stereograph where two lenses produced photo at a time that resulted in a 3 dimensional image if seen through a type of early View-Master.

Oakley first spotted the hawk like profile of Lincoln's secretary of state William H. Seward in Gardner's first stereo plate. The superimposing of one of his well known image and the suspected image made Oakley believe that it was the secretary and assumed that the President Lincoln can't be far away as he knew from one indisputable photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg that Seward sat near Lincoln on the speech platform. Oakley said that everything ‘lined up beautifully'…"
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BS….

There's not enough imagery on the photo to be able to see. You can see "a hat"…and maybe part of a head…everything else is so worn..it could be a town councilman, a sutler, a northern arms dealer or Professor Validius Hartsnuff, snake-oil salesman…

It's a white guy in a tall hat; you can imagine what you want.

And he's standing in the right place.