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Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cleveland – Vintage Wall Art

Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cleveland, [1865 April 28] — historic drawing
Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cleveland, [1865 April 28]. Historic drawing from the Cleveland 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cleveland. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few pictures of Lincoln's funeral record the decorated structures themselves, but this drawing shows a building erected to receive the President's body when the funeral train stopped in Cleveland on April 28, 1865, on its way to Springfield. The artist's note above the image, that the flags are drooping because it rained hard all day, conveys the somber, rain-soaked mood of the stop. A second inscription in the left margin points to a separate house where the first subscriptions to the Boston *Liberator*, William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist paper, were gathered, a reminder of the antislavery movement behind the nation's mourning.

Created / published[1865 April 28]
Medium1 drawing on pink-tan paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 25.2 x 35.3 cm. (sheet).
GenreMay 20
NotesTitle inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically left margin: House where the first subscription to the Boston Liberator" was got up. Inscribed above image: I have made the flags drooping it was raining hard all day
SubjectsLincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Death & burial. Funeral rites & ceremonies--1860-1870. Women--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 980 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110327

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