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

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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 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 Bed of Lincoln

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  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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  The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865

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  Lithograph. L to R: Maj. Rathbone, Miss Harris, Mrs. Lincoln, President, John Wilkes Booth. The first of the assassination prints to appear -- 11 days after the event. One of the most popular of all the Currier and Ives lithographs judging by number of copies that survive.

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  Death bed of Abraham Lincoln. Died April 15th 1865

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  People in image: L to R: Secretary Edwin Stanton, Secretary Gideon Welles, Rev. Dr. Gurley, Surgeon General Joseph Barnes, Mrs. Lincoln. Robert Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Charles Sumner. Secretary William Dennison, Chief Justice Chase, Secretary Usher.

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  The Assassination of President Lincoln / At Ford's Theatre, Washington, on the night of Friday, April 14, 1865

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  Lithograph. Assassination is depicted with creative license: no flag butting in which Booth caught his spur and Lincoln reportedly slumped forward and did not stand after being shot.

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