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 ...
In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president’s casket in ... great American death. Abraham Lincoln’s ...
Abraham Lincoln’s coffin from the White House to the Capitol ... and signed the official announcement of the president’s death to the armed forces. He also signed the declaration of 30 days ...
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 ...