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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0012-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- May 1865
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Lincoln's tomb showing his and Willie's caskets, covered with flowers and crepe]
- Place Written
- Springfield, Illinois
- Pagination
- 1 albumen print Height: 12.3 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
A print of a photograph of the caskets of Abraham Lincoln and William Wallace Lincoln in the receiving vault of Oak Ridge Cemetary, Springfield, IL. Taken sometime in May, 1865. Willie's remains were exhumed upon his father's death and transferred to Springfield, where both of their remains were interred with Edward's and Tad's in 1871. Half stereo-card size print. Ex-Fay. An albumen print on a modern mounting.
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