[Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois]
Summary
Title devised from Harper's Weekly.
Inscribed below image: old. Within image: pink, white. Inscribed on bunting: The father; Sooner Than Surrender These Principles I Would Be Assassinated on this.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2).
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 27, 1865, p. 328, as: President Lincoln's Funeral - Catafalque in the City Hall, Springfield, Illinois.
Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1999-2000.
Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Tags
Date
01/01/1865
Contributors
Waud, William, -1878, artist
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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