Death of General James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States – Antique Print
![Death of General James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1881. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d8/d8d88b09d994-L.webp)
(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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Death of General James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Death of General James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States
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Currier & Ives issued this 1881 lithograph to mark the death of James A. Garfield, the twentieth president, who had been shot in July of that year at a Washington railroad station by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1609. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109774 |
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