Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 vintage minnesota The scene captures the February

The scene captures the February evening that gave a generation its rallying cry

Honor to the Brave 1865 — a commemorative lithograph struck in the year the guns finally fell silent

This print is drawn from an original painting of the Headless Horseman — Washington Irving's immortal figure from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and the ordinary geometry of municipal life

Baberuthgoudeycard2 a 1933 Goudey of the Bambino himself

Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 vintage minnesota The scene captures the FebruaryDeath of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph issued in the raw hours after Ford's Theatre, when ink could scarcely keep pace with grief. The image fixes the deathbed at the Petersen House, that narrow back room where a republic, having just won itself, was made to begin again without him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional