Audio Tour
"One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" featured a cell phone tour in the gallery. The exhibition has since closed, but you can still listen to the tour, below. For more audio, listen to this interview of historian David Ward, from the National Portrait Gallery's Face-to-Face blog.
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Introduction |
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David Ward, Historian, National Portrait Gallery |
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Why did Lincoln grow a beard? |
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Abraham Lincoln, 1861 |
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| Why were these masks created? |
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Abraham Lincoln, 1860, 1865 |
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Why is this portrait cracked? |
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Abraham Lincoln, 1865 |
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How does this photograph foreshadow Lincoln's death? |
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865 |
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In what way did Lincoln try to manage the explosiveness of the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation |
