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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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The Abraham Lincoln funeral car, photographed from, an old print.Lch^H-^^Ji^ ■*/tj£?Jj~~ Natlilnal ■ -.: :r 60 YEARS AGO TODAi APRIL, 20, 1865. WASHINGTON. — President Lin-colns body lies in state in the magnifi-cent rotunda of the capitol in chargeof the Illinois delegation, which willtake it to Springfield. The remains oflittle Willie Lincoln will be disinterredtoday to be removed to Illinois alongwith those of his father. Never before in history has Wash-ington presented so mournful or granda scene, and never before has a greatnation offered such a heartfelt tributeto the memory of a deceased ruler, asthat paid to the mortal remains ofAbraham Lincoln by the American peo-ple yesterday. At an early hour theWhite House vicinity was throngedwith people of all ages and colors. The colored people were on theground first, and by a sort of right tookpossession of the railing wall in frontof the Presidents home. The ironfence was perfectly black with thefaces of those whose best frie

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