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Currier & Ives|Abraham Lincoln

The Body of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, Lying in State at the City Hall, N.Y., April 24th & 25th, 1865

1865
Lithograph
30.6 × 21 cm (12 × 8.3 in)

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