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- Lithograph, "Last Moments of President LIncoln," 1865 - Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 plunged Americans into deep mourning. Before the existence of newspaper photos and television, lithographs helped people to understand the tragic event. This print 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.
- April 15, 1865
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Lithograph, "Last Moments of President LIncoln," 1865
Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 plunged Americans into deep mourning. Before the existence of newspaper photos and television, lithographs helped people to understand the tragic event. This print 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.
- Benjamin Franklin's Last Moments, Death Bed Scene, Drawn for a Magic Lantern Slide, 1902-1903 - Joseph Boggs Beale created artwork that was reproduced to make magic lantern slides. His works include some of the most artistic slide illustrations made in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Beale was also prolific, producing more than 2000 images used in over 250 different lantern slide sets. This drawing, part of Beale's "Life of Benjamin Franklin" set, depicts the last moments of Franklin's life.
- April 17, 1790
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Benjamin Franklin's Last Moments, Death Bed Scene, Drawn for a Magic Lantern Slide, 1902-1903
Joseph Boggs Beale created artwork that was reproduced to make magic lantern slides. His works include some of the most artistic slide illustrations made in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Beale was also prolific, producing more than 2000 images used in over 250 different lantern slide sets. This drawing, part of Beale's "Life of Benjamin Franklin" set, depicts the last moments of Franklin's life.
- "Death of President Lincoln at Washington D.C. April 15, 1865, The Nation's Martyr" - Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 plunged Americans into deep mourning. Before the existence of newspaper photos and television, lithographs helped people to understand the tragic event. This print 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.
- April 15, 1865
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"Death of President Lincoln at Washington D.C. April 15, 1865, The Nation's Martyr"
Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 plunged Americans into deep mourning. Before the existence of newspaper photos and television, lithographs helped people to understand the tragic event. This print 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.
- Lithograph, "Death of Harrison, April 4 A.D. 1841" -
- April 04, 1841
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Lithograph, "Death of Harrison, April 4 A.D. 1841"
- Deathbed of Abraham Lincoln, 1865 - 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.
- 1865
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Deathbed of Abraham Lincoln, 1865
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.
- Death of Gen. Z. Taylor, 12th President of the US, at the President's House, July 9, 1850 - President Zachary Taylor died on July 9, 1850, after only sixteen months in office. Taylor, a hero of the Mexican-American War, died of an intestinal ailment that doctors at the time diagnosed as "cholera morbus." His unexpected death shocked the nation. An estimated one hundred thousand mourners lined the funeral route in the nation's capital. Taylor was succeeded by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
- July 09, 1850
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Death of Gen. Z. Taylor, 12th President of the US, at the President's House, July 9, 1850
President Zachary Taylor died on July 9, 1850, after only sixteen months in office. Taylor, a hero of the Mexican-American War, died of an intestinal ailment that doctors at the time diagnosed as "cholera morbus." His unexpected death shocked the nation. An estimated one hundred thousand mourners lined the funeral route in the nation's capital. Taylor was succeeded by Vice President Millard Fillmore.