Death of President Lincoln, The Nation's Martyr – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Death of President Lincoln, The Nation's Martyr brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Death of President Lincoln, The Nation's Martyr
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Rather than showing the theater itself, this print depicts the small back bedroom of the Petersen House across Tenth Street, where Abraham Lincoln was carried after John Wilkes Booth shot him at Ford's theater on April 14, 1865. He died there the next morning, and the scene of the grieving cabinet and family gathered around his bed became one of the most reproduced images of the nation's mourning. Printmakers sold such images widely in the weeks after the assassination, and they helped shape how Americans remembered Lincoln as a martyr to the Union cause.
| Original scan | 1,150 × 887 px |
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| Reference | L-D-1 |
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