Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

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President Lincoln’s assassination April 14, 1865 was shocking news. Before the existence of magazine photos and television, written newspaper accounts, prints, card photographs and memorials helped people to mourn and to understand the tragic event.

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Deathbed of Abraham Lincoln, 1865

Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)

Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 plunged Americans into deep mourning. Prints and card photographs helped people to understand the tragic event. This collage has a drawing with photographic bust portraits added. It depicts a room of the Petersen House, where the president died, across the street from Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Not all of these people were actually in the room the morning Lincoln died.