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 ...

178 pictures of Lincoln’s Tomb — including the unearthing of his coffin — and dozens of photos related to Lincoln’s assassination, funeral and the execution of the plot’s conspirators.

“He died for me! He died for me! God bless him!” Those words, spoken through tears by an elderly woman as she watched Lincoln’s coffin pass through the streets of lower Manhattan, captured ...