Lincoln lying in state / S.M. Fassett, photographer, Chicago. – Historic Photograph Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Lincoln lying in state / S.M. Fassett, photographer, Chicago., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lincoln lying in state / S.M. Fassett, photographer, Chicago.
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Few pictures capture the Chicago leg of Lincoln's final journey as directly as this one, which shows the president's body on display in 1865. Chicago was one of many stops on the slow funeral train that carried Lincoln from Washington toward his home in Springfield, Illinois, and crowds in each city waited for hours to file past the coffin. Photographer S.M. Fassett, working in Chicago, recorded the ceremony, and prints like this one carried images of the mourning city to people who could not attend. Today the picture helps historians understand the public grief and ritual that followed the assassination.
| Created / published | [1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Death & burial. Funeral rites & ceremonies--Illinois--Chicago--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,258 × 1,075 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215979 |
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