umm,,,Alex,,,where's the hoax? You've posted this before.

That last photo doesn't look even remotely like Mary Todd Lincoln.

Mundus vult decipi. [shrug]

That looks like Lincoln lying ill. I don't see a coffin.

There's no coffin because Lincoln isn't dead yet -- this lithograph (not photograph!) is one of the popular death bed scenes mass-produced at the time (some in colour, all to at least some degree fanciful). No photographs were taken in that room until after Lincoln died, and even then it was only of the bed, with the bloody pillow and bedding still upon it.

The people shown were (I think) all in the room that night, but there was not nearly enough space for all of them at the same time, let alone all of them plus a photographer. (It's a pretty small room.) Besides, Mary Lincoln would have had a major fit the moment the flash went off -- trust me, we'd have known about it from all the stories if this had happened.

The woman in the death-bed picture is definitely Mary Todd Lincoln. But it's not a photograph -- at most, it's a photograph of a lithograph.

The lithograph showing all the people in the bedroom of Lincoln at the time of his death is a fabrication, taken directly from the original etching created in 1861, showing Lincoln's council members working at a desk in his bedroom, which Lincoln often used used as his war room. To create the deathbed image, they simply removed the desk, with all its papers and various accoutrements, and then inserted a fabricated image of the Prez laid out in his deathbed. You can see the original image at the following website (scroll to the bottom of the page):

http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/floor2/lincoln-bedroom.htm

Interestingly enough, the etching you will see there that directly follows this original etching being discussed here, was another image used to create a fake photo of the President and his council members. In that fabrication, we have well-known photographer, Mathew Brady, actually cannibalizing images from his own original portraits, then joining them together in the same format seen in the etching, seamlessly joining them (or close enough)through the use of some quality lithographic techniques. This fabricated image was then sold to the public as a true photograph of the men under the auspices of his "Mathew Brady Studios."

where do you see the death pictures of lincon????????????????? I don't see them

HIIIII I LOVE LINCOLN HE IS SO HOTTTTTT

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