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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Hearses (Vehicles) Railroad cars Railroad trains
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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d In April of 1866.The elements and railroad usage on the Colorado Central utterly destroyedIt. In 1904 a Franklin B. Snom bought It for $6,840 from the Union Pacificand exhibited It at the St. Louis Expo. In 1905 the Hon. Thomas Lomry paid off mechanics liens on the car and tookIt to Minneapolis. He mas a street cor and real estate tycoon. He usedthe cor to attract people to Colombia Helghs....a land developement of his.He tried to give the car to several historical organizations mlth no takers On March 15,1911 the Lincoln Cor mas completely destroyed In o ragingpralre gross fire. All that remained mas a small piece of a mlndom frame.That piece mas made Into a tie clasp by a gentleman mho uuos a physical edInstructor at the University of Mlnneasoto. This Is the finest photo of the tmo cars that Is available. The originalIs In the possession of the Buffalo-Erie County Historical Society. Courtesy of the Buffalo-Erie County Historical Society M955 etemk (UUl»*0iUB0i, Af.y. t*09A •^^
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This photograph of the Abraham Lincoln Furneral Car was taken on April 20,1865,the daybefore it ivas taken across the Potomac to the Baltimore £■. Ohio Railroad Station to receivethe casket of the assinated 16th President of the United States. It suposedly was taken byMatthew ^rady. The altering and trimming of the railroad car for the funeral had just thenbeen completed. This is the unaltered photograph from ivhich the Grand Army of the Republiccropped photograph from v^hich the printing plate for the 300,000 printing of the souvenirLamson Brothers Department was made. The Civil VJar Soldier on the rear platform is Myron Hawley Lamson who v/as an enlistedmechanic in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Washington. It is not visableon this print but that ornate hand-wrought brass railing behind which Lamson is standinghas been removed from the other end of the car to facilitate the taking of the casket inand out of the funeral car at the places enroute. He also built

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