The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

(WCIA) — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum ... 178 pictures of Lincoln’s Tomb — including the unearthing of his coffin — and dozens of photos related to Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... not just seeing Lincoln’s coffin pass but filing past to view his corpse—and why the casket was not closed even when, after two weeks, the embalming ...

The casket was placed in the middle of the room on the Lincoln catafalque, a platform built in 1865 to hold slain president Abraham Lincoln ... including his hands-on contributions to building ...