Death of President Lincoln, The Nation's Martyr – Vintage Print
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This historic image of Death of President Lincoln, The Nation's Martyr brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Death of President Lincoln, The Nation's Martyr
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Currier & Ives published this lithograph in New York in 1865, and its title fixes the moment as Abraham Lincoln's death in Washington on April 15, 1865, which the print casts as "The Nation's Martyr." Lincoln had been shot the night before at Ford's theater and died the next morning in the Petersen House across the street. The firm sold inexpensive lithographs to a broad public, and its many memorial prints from that spring show how quickly the loss became a shared national grief. The word "martyr" is worth noticing, since it framed the president's death as a sacrifice made for the Union.
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,132 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-D-1 |
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