The Gettysburg Address, a Great Speech and a Singable Picture Book
Posted on: June 12, 2011
I found Sam Fink’s illustration of The Gettysburg Address at the Indiana State Museum:
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The Gettysburg Address
Words by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Inscribed and Illustrated by Sam Fink
Sam Fink’s illustration (like his book for The Constutution) has a phrase and illustration on the speech on each page along with footnotes and quotes. It is a fabulous book.
Finding this wonderful, quirky illustration of the entire speech was exciting, allowing me to match it up with another exciting find:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1330
“Call of Freedom” liner notes PDF, here:
http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW07566.pdf
The Gettysburg Address is performed on Track 4, by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York)
The Gettysburg Address is carved on an internal wall of the awe inspiring Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. This is a picture of the address from Wikipeidia. A terrific article about the Lincoln Memorial, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial
The United States Park Service intereactive website for the Lincoln Memorial, here:
http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/ncr/linc/interactive/deploy/index.htm#/introduction
This website’s multi-media content is filled with stories, pictures, and historical and logistical information.
The Park Service general information website for the Lincoln Memorial, here:
http://www.nps.gov/linc/index.htm
The Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, PA (on Thursday, November 19, 1863), as inscribed on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
You can find this picture for download, by clickign here:
http://www.scienceviews.com/photo/browse/SIA1791.jpg
This project will take a while to get together. Music must be obtained and sing-along tracks created. But I’m looking forward to adding this to the Amercian History repertoire and sharing it with kids hither and yon! Until then, I hope you can enjoy, as much as I am, learning about this amazing piece of American History.
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Being a cabaret artist, I have a compulsion to tell stories related to the material that I work with. Recently my dad created a digial image of a document that my Great-Great-Grandfather Thomas M. Smith created for his daughter (my Great-Grandmother Alta L. Smith) detailing his experience in the Civil War.
This is the document, hand lettered on printed canvas (or parchment), presented to Alta L. Smith from her father Thomas M. Smith.
Transcription of the text, detailing Thomas Smith’s activities during the Civil War:
Enlisted from Ripley Co. Indiana and was mustered into the us service at Greensburg Indiana Dec 24 1863 as a private in Co. D 123rd regt. Ind. Vol. Infty. Under Capt. A. J. McCoy and Col. John C. McQuiston to serve 3 years or during the war.
March 16, 1864 left for Nashville Tenn. on arrival was assigned 102nd brig. 1st div. 23rd ac Army of the Tennessee.
May 23, 1864 marched on campaign against Atlanta and participated in the following engagements, Rock Face Ridge May 9, Resaca May 14, Lost Mountain June 17, Pine Mountain June 23rd, Kennesaw Mountain June 27, Chattahoochee July 7, Decatur July 19, siege of Atlanta July 22-sept 2-64, Nashville Dec. 15-16, Wises’ Fork March 7-65. They said Thomas M Smith with his company and regt. marched thousands of miles in the different campaigns in which he participated, much of the time engaged in open battle and skirmishes with the enemy. Building fortifications guarding supply trains destroying RR etc, suffering all the privations hardships and dangers incident to an almost continuous active service. His company and regt. was conspicuous for the many dashing deeds of bravery rendering such brilliant and heroic service at time so to call out the highest words of praise and commendation from commanding generals. His regt. moved by rail to Charlotte NC May 15, 1865 where it remained in camp during the summer of 1865 thence Raleigh NC August 25, 1865 left Raleigh for Indianapolis Ind. Where it arrived Sept 4, 1865 500 strong. The regt. lost heavily in killed and wounded at the battles near Lost Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta and Decatur. The regiment lost in the Atlanta campaign 28 killed and 705 wounded. Sept 5, 1865 the 123rd as guests of the ladies of Indianapolis partook of a sumptuous dinner at the soldiers home and proceeding from thence to the state house grove where welcomed with addresses from General Mansfield and Col. Trusler . The regt. was mustered out of the service of the us on the 25th of August 1865 at Raleigh NC, and after it’s arrival and reception at Indianapolis received final payment and discharge. Thos M. Smith was honorably discharged his services being no longer required on account of the close of the war.
Presented by Thomas M. Smith
To his daughter Alta L. Smith
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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Illustrated
Book by Jack E. Levin
Speech (Lyrics) by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Illustrated with archival period photographs by Various Artists
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Speech (Lyrics) by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
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Gettysburg Address in Translation
Link to the Google Books rendering of this book, HERE
By Kay Melchisedech Olson
Speech (Lyrics) by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Published by Capstone Press (2008)
ISBN: 978-1429628457
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This is a print at the Library of Congress, a great image:
The Gettysburg Address
For original and highest quality downloadable images, click here:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe13/rbpe133/1330330f/rbpe1330330f.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+1330330f))&linkText=0
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The Gettysburg Address
By Abraham Lincoln
Published by Penguin Books Great Ideas (2009)
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The Gettysburg Address (and Other Writings)
By Abraham Lincoln
Published by Fall River Press (2010)
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Related Material
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The Constitution of the United States of America (With Benjamin Franklin’s Address to the Delegates Upon the Signing of the Constitution)
Inscribed and Illustrated by Sam Fink
The Preamble to the Constitution (which you can SING, thanks to Lynn Ahrens and School House Rock) is printed and illustrated in this AMAZING book that called to me from across the book-sale. I sailed over to it and snatched it up. It’s a tall, heavy book with fabulous illustrations which illuminate a complete printing of the US Constitution and includes a chronology of and historical information about constitutional creation.
You can hear a clip of Lynn Ahrens singing The Preamble, on Track 4 of this link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0000033XR/ref=pd_krex_dp_001_004?ie=UTF8&track=004&disc=001
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