another relatively new peicture is this one which most people think is lincoln out on the north driveway't tell, but here is a little boy and he was out there all the time. the rail that go you see beyond that is a 14 foot drop that served the basement. all of these railings were put in, in the 1830s. the lamps were put there in the 1850s by pierce. all of what you see stunned, that whole top of the portico which you usually find is wood. but it is not, it is all stone. it was used for nothing in lincoln's time. it was a barn. the only non picture of the east room is this one. this came from a flea market in maryland. but, you had to piece it together. the ceiling was painted and the chandeliers came in from jackson and were made into gas by polk. it was changed quickly by johnson because it was so worn out. this is where it was put in by general grant and all the parts vanished nobody knows where those light fixtures and thins s were. when lincoln died they used the plateau in france and it is rarely ever been assembled the whole way since lincoln's time. it is 13.5 feet long. they had