Thank you to everyone who participated and voted in the 2009 Photography Contest!
FIRST PLACE
Congratulations to Erica Abbey for her winning photograph depicting the Lincoln sculpture in front of President Lincoln’s Cottage. Ms. Abbey’s photo will be turned into a postcard available for purchase in the President Lincoln’s Cottage Museum Store.
SECOND PLACE went to Les Ward for [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘DC Photography’
May 27, 2009
Congratulations to the Winning Photographers!
May 12, 2009
Vote for Your Favorite Photo!
On April 25, 2009, President Lincoln’s Cottage held its first ever Photography Day, giving participants the rare chance to photograph the Cottage interior and a vista overlooking downtown Washington. Cottage staff selected 10 finalists from 49 entries. Entries were kept anonymous for staff voting only.
You select the winner!
Vote for your favorite photo by reviewing the entries [...]
April 7, 2009
Photo Day at President Lincoln’s Cottage on April 25th
The first-ever Photo Day at President Lincoln’s Cottage will be held Saturday, April 25, 2009. Photo Day offers amateur photographers a rare chance to take interior and exterior shots of the Cottage and a scenic vista overlooking downtown Washington, DC. Interior photography and access to the vista are exclusive to this program.
All photographers will be asked [...]
March 5, 2009
Rare Stereoview of President Lincoln’s Cottage
Erin Carlson Mast
Original images of President Lincoln’s Cottage from the Civil War period are rare. Over five years of research before and during restoration yielded only a couple handfuls of prints, drawings, photographs, and lithographs of the Cottage that date to around the 1860s.
Two months ago, Col. and Mrs. Gary Vroegindewey donated several cartes de visites and other [...]
January 5, 2009
New Photos of President Lincoln’s Cottage
By Erin Carlson Mast
Chris Stamboulis, a recent visitor, was kind enough to share photos taken one afternoon after touring President Lincoln’s Cottage.
View Chris’s photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/christaki/tags/lincolnscottage
All of our visitors are welcome and encouraged to take exterior photos of the Cottage for personal use. Interior photography was prohibited in the Cottage shortly after opening, due to the negative [...]
