Saturday, September 17, 2005

Abraham Lincoln, Photoblogging Pioneer


Reposted in honor of 1500 posts, a totally lame benchmark.

Washington D.C.
April 1863
My Dear Mr. Matthew Brady,
I very much enjoyed your daguerrotypes and felt the need to let you know with this letter. When this war is over, I hope to cross this undivided country by rail and enshrine forever images of what God hath wrought before they perish from this Earth. Perhaps even one day, I shall transmit my images across the telegraph so that they may be shared freely and openly. Under a Creative Commons License, of course.
Yours,
Abraham Lincoln
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6 comments:

  1. The power of Abe has let you move through time and post this pic two days from now! I am very impressed!
    ~TatuNurse

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  2. The power of Abe also allows me to post-date checks and find pennies.

    All Hail Photoblogger Abe

    http://stovepipeabe.blogspot.com

    He also gets trapped kittens down from trees and is the finder of lost earings.

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  3. Haha! This is wonderful. How did you pull this off?

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  4. I know a guy who is a Night Security Guard over at the National Archives. He owed me a gambling debt and gave me this, some personal letters of Lincoln's, a desk made by Thomas Jefferson, a small chunk of moon rock, and glasses that once belonged to FDR. Do not be alarmed though, he said he got all the stuff on eBay. And who am I to quibble with such a bad poker player.

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  5. Hey, the same thing happenned to me on ebay... Found a quantum torpedo, a transporter (small one), two klingons "bathleth" and a book about gardening. Cooooool! Bye the way, Sir Abe is one of my personal favorite Americain. To bad I didn't get the time machine... :0D

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