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Remains of President Garfield lying in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol / C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C. – Vintage Print

Remains of President Garfield lying in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol / C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C., c1881. — historic photograph
Remains of President Garfield lying in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol / C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C., c1881.. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(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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A flag-draped coffin stands at the center of the Capitol Rotunda in this view, the place where President James A. Garfield lay in state in September 1881. Garfield had been shot in July of that year at a Washington railroad station and died in New Jersey in mid-September, and the Capitol ceremony drew large crowds of mourners. The photograph was made by C.M. Bell, a Washington studio photographer who documented many public events and buildings of the period. Its carefully composed view of the hushed rotunda offers a record of the national mourning that followed the assassination.

Created / publishedc1881.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1890.
Notes14593M U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3.
SubjectsGarfield, James A. (James Abram),--1831-1881--Death & burial--Washington (D.C.) Lying in state--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1890. Coffins--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,454 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-215960

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