Death of President Lincoln at Washington, D.C., April 15, 1865 – Historic Print
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Death of President Lincoln at Washington, D.C., April 15, 1865 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Death of President Lincoln at Washington, D.C., April 15, 1865
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This print depicts the death of Abraham Lincoln in the Petersen House across from Ford's theater in Washington, D.C., on the morning of April 15, 1865, less than a day after he was shot during a performance there. Lincoln was carried to the boarding house, where he lay diagonally across a bed too short for his frame while cabinet members, army officers and his family gathered around him. He died at 7:22 a.m., and the scene became one of the most widely reproduced images of the period, circulated as a sober record of a nation's grief. Its composition, with the dim, crowded room and the solemn figures around the bed, reflects how Americans chose to remember their president in the days after the assassination.
| Original scan | 6,704 × 5,073 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 19484u |
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