File:1861 Davis Inaugural.jpg

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English: First inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama, February 18, 1861. Lithographs based on this image were published from the 1860s onward, however, the actual photograph was first published in Dudley H. Miles' The photographic history of the Civil War. New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1912, v.9, p.291.
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Author Archibald Crossland McIntyre of Montgomery, Alabama
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20:42, 26 June 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:42, 26 June 20151,214 × 1,634 (737 KB)Earthsound (talk | contribs)Larger resolution of original photograph from the Boston Athanaeum Digital Collection; cropped; levels slightly adjusted.
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18:40, 4 April 2008Thumbnail for version as of 18:40, 4 April 2008970 × 1,256 (1.7 MB)TivadarSzemethy (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Jefferson Davis inaugurated as the first President of the Confederate States of America on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol on February 18, 1861. |Source= |Date= |Author= |other_versions= }}

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