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- GLC#
- GLC00493.02-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1880-1890
- Author/Creator
- Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
- Title
- Passage through Baltimore
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 etching : b&w Height: 34.7 cm, Width: 26.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
Comments on Abraham Lincoln's stealthy trip through pro-South Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. Lincoln's plans were changed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1861 to avoid trouble in Baltimore. He boarded a special train on 23 February 1861 and travelled through Baltimore behind the curtains of a berth in a sleeping car. Volck depicts Lincoln being frightened by a hissing cat as he attempts to peek out of a freight car. The letters "P.W. & B.R.R. Co" (Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad) are on the freight car as well as the words "fright Bones." Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 26.2 x 20.2 cm. The title was found in a note in pencil at the bottom of the etching.
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