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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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From the Lincoln National Life Foundation Another view of the funeral arches at Michigan Citydisplaying the motto: Abraham Lincoln—With TearsWe Resign Thee—To-God-And-History. Another mottonot seen in this photograph was, The Purposes of theAlmighty are perfect, and must prevail. LINCOLN LORE *fcltf(
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Photograph Courtesy of Philip T. Spraguc Lincolns funeral train passing through the memorial arch at Michigan City, Indiana,on May 1, 1865. The structure was 12 feet wide and the main columns 14 feethigh. From these there sprang a succession of arches in Gothic style, 35 feet fromthe base to the summit. From the crowning central point was a staff with a drapednational flag at half mast. The arches were trimmed with while and black, andornamented with evergreens and choice flowers. Numerous miniature flags fringedthe curved edges, and portraits of the lamented dead were encircled with crepe.The depot appears at the left of this photograph. This was the first MichiganCentral Depot, but it was also used by the Lake Erie and Western. In the back-ground at the right appears Blairs grain elevator. The delegation of sixteen ladies,led by Miss Hattie Colfax, who placed a cross of flowers on Lincolns casket areprobably shown in the center of the photograph, however, they are not dressed inwhit

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