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Death Bed of Lincoln

Description: Albumen print. Face of the dying president was modeled after the Mathew Brady profile photo taken Feb. 9, 1864 & later adapted for the copper penny. Rare as engraving, but achieved popularity in this format -- as CDV for family albums. Depicts Lincoln on his deathbed, surrounded by his cabinet and generals. A young man (Robert Lincoln?) covers his face in grief, Mary Lincoln is on her knees at the bedside weeping
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Date: c. 1865
Call number: photPF 25498
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Death Bed of Lincoln

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Engraving. Face of the dying president was modeled after the Mathew Brady profile photo taken Feb. 9, 1864 & later adapted for the copper penny. Depicts Lincoln on his deathbed, surrounded by his cabinet and generals. A young man (Robert Lincoln?) covers his face in grief, Mary Lincoln is on her knees at the bedside weeping. A later photographic print of this image became widely popular.

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Death of President Lincoln

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First Lincoln death bed print by Currier & Ives, copyrighted on April 26, 1865. Depicts "little Tad" Lincoln weeping at his mother's knee beside the President's bedside. Tad was never present at the deathbed. This first print shows Gen. Henry W. Halleck (with handkerchief) at the bedside in contrast to the later version in which he is replaced by Vice President Andrew Johnson. See also pri675 (25).

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Death of President Lincoln./At Washington D.C. April 15th 1865/The Nation's Martyr

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Variant of the first death bed print published by Currier & Ives. Depicts "little Tad" Lincoln weeping at his mother's knee beside the President's bedside. Tad was never present at the deathbed. This revised version includes Vice President Andrew Johnson at the bedside in place of Gen. Henry W. Halleck. See also pri675 (26)

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Death of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va., October 12th, 1870, aged, 62 years, 8 months and 6 days

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Image of General Robert E. Lee on his deathbed in Lexington, Virginia, in 1870; his children General Custis Lee, Mildred Lee, and Agnes Lee mourn at his bedside while a physician and clergyman look on.

priJLC_MIL_001215

In memory of Abraham Lincoln. The reward of the just

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Image of a memorial print for United States president Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln ascends into heaven assisted by Father Time and an angel (or "Immortality") from a crypt; three women at left (Faith, Hope, and Charity) can be seen grieving, one holds her hand out, another with two children in her arms, and a third is slumped forward on her arms weeping; beneath Lincoln is a bald eagle, Union shield on which is written "E pluribus unum" and the goddess Columbia (or Liberty) bowing her head in sorrow, staff with Phrygian cap in hand; Lincoln's discarded armor and sword lie on the ground near a Native American Indian with his hatchet and arrows sitting with head resting on his knees; on the tomb is written the words "A. Lincoln, Died April 15th 1865."

priJLC_POL_002726

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Abraham Lincoln : memorial print

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Image of an obelisk monument draped in an American flag, the name Lincoln surrounded by laurel wreath just below the flag. Printed below the wreath is: Born Feby. 12 1809. / Ours the Cross / His the Crown / Assassinated April 14 1865. One the left of the obelisk is a man in civilian dress, on the right a soldier, hands in prayer while leaning on a musket. At the base of the monument, Columbia stands in a red and blue dress with her hand over her face while weeping, broken shackles hanging on either side.

Pr. Box 680

Death Bed of Lincoln

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