This is an etching of the scene at Stevens' deathbed in Washington, D.C. |
Statue at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster, PA. |
A drawing of Stevens' home and law office in downtown Lancaster. |
The bronze plaque that is displayed at our new bridge. Click photo to enlarge. |
This is Stevens final rites at the Shreiner-Concord Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
A great etching of Thaddeus Stevens. My youngest son was named after him when born in the Bicentennial year of 1976. |
Stevens' granite stone in the cemetery at the corner of W. Chestnut and N. Mulberry Streets in downtown Lancaster. |
As a fellow Lancastrian and printer, I enjoy reading your blog each day. I am always fascinated by early photography and noticed that the photo you have indicated as Steven's lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda has a caption in the lower right corner identifying it as "Lincoln Lying at the Capitol" I curious which ID was correct? Regards...
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous. First, thanks for taking the time to read my stories. Second, thanks for discovering what I thought to be a photo of Stevens lying in state. I never saw that reversed sentence on the bottom of the photo. It was taken from an old book written about Thaddeus Stevens. The book has been out of publication for years, so I have no idea who I should contact about the mistake. At least I will no longer be passing it along as fact when in fact it is not. As you notice, I have removed it from my blog. After almost 8 years of stories, I'm sure that was not the first mistake I made. You have good eyesight and a curious eye. Thanks for catching it for me so others don't pass it along as fact.
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LDub, Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to doubt your initial post? Even though Lincoln was revered in life, I find it strange that the huge statue of him looming in front of his own casket would have been created prior to his death in 1865. With Stevens dying in 1968 a statue of Lincoln in the rotunda would be much more plausible. Who might solve the mystery??
ReplyDeleteI enlarged the photo to more than twice the size and flipped it and it read: Lincoln lying at the Capitol with a neg. # next to it. I understand what you are saying, but until I can feel comfortable that it really is Stevens, I prefer to remove it. I wouldn't want someone else to copy it and place it in another document that may change history. You never know. I'll keep searching and see if I can find an answer.
ReplyDeleteThe picture is of Thaddeus Stevens laying in state. The sentence about Lincoln in the corner was a mistake. Besides the statue of Lincoln, another indication that it was Stevens is the presence of a Black color guard, which was not present for Lincoln. Also, the Harper's Weekly drawing of Stevens laying in state is the same as the photo. https://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/15032404923?current_search_qs=%3FTerm%3DHarper%2527s%2BWeekly%26PreviousSearch%3DHarper%2527s%2BWeekly%252cTitle%26CurrentPage%3D1%26SortOrder%3DTitle%26ResultType%3DGrid%26Command%3D5 Be assured, that is Stevens laying in state. Ross Hetrick, president, Thaddeus Stevens Society.
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