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Title
Death of President Lincoln
Creator
Butts, A. R., photographer
Currier & Ives, lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1865
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
United States Civil War
Rights Information
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Description
Image of Lincoln on his death bed.
Photographic copy of a Currier & Ives Print, Pr. Box 675/26. Depicts "little Tad" Lincoln weeping at his mother's knee beside the President's bedside. Tad was never present at the deathbed. Shows Gen. Henry W. Halleck (with hankerchief)
Extent
1 print : albumen ; 6 x 10 cm (2 3/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Identifier
photPF 25499
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5045
Language
English
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Death and burial
Deathbeds. (gmgpc)
Source
Photo File
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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