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

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author, said\d of Des Moines-year-old pictureJ^iagiFg through materialstate historical library here.itt said after thorough re-seafth into letters and newspapersof the period that the photograph,a four-by-six-inch proof print, isdefinitely authentic. The state historian said Jere-miah Gurney jr., of New York tookthe picture from a balcony 20 feetabove Lincolns body when theLincoln funeral train stopped inNew York en route to Springfield. The features and beard of themartyred Civil war president canhardly be distinguished in the pic-ture, Pratt said. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stan-ton heard about the photo and or-dered all prints as well as the platedestroyed. But he apparently for-got to destroy a proof that hadbeen sent to him. This proof remained in Stantonsfiles. Eventually it was obtainedby Mrs. Alice Hay Wadsworth,ivho gave it to the state historicallibrary with other Lincoln papersIn 1940. It remained among thismaterial undiscovered until youngRietveld turned it up recently.
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~~ 111 ■*•>- ;■ 7* ^T^ i MW^^^i^ i, or pREsiDL\r LiMLui \ ^L\^ lofiK -irnii ., ORIGINAL CURRIER AND IVES SHOWS LINCOLN FUNERALPrint Found In Files At Dayton Daily News To Be Framed. FOVISD IN DAILY NEWS FILES Original Currier, Ives PrintDepicts Funeral Of Lincoln By FK.\N FKANTZ Daily News Staff Writer An original Currier and Ivesprint showing Lincolns funeralprocession turned up in the filesat The Dayton Daily News in asearch for material to use in con-nection with Lincolns birtiiday to-day. ■ The print, which had originallybeen wrapped in brown paper androlled, somehow had become flat-tened in a tangle of Lhicoln pressclippings and forgotten. No oneon the News staff knows where itcame from or how long it has beenin the files. But it recalled one of the most /itcJ H^kCfu ^- complex funerals on record. Lin-coln, who died April 15, 1865, wasnot buried until May 4. Congress wanted to bury himin Wusliin^ton but Mrs. Lincolnobjected. Ttie Illinois delegationdemanded the return

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