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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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A grieving city bowed its head in tribute to the assasinated president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln, When this picture was made at the memorial services following his death in Hanoversq. in 1865. Landmarks of old Syracuse are visible-in the black-draped background. The service was held on the day Lincolns body passed through the city en route to Springfield, 111. The grief on that day 66 years ago was no less poignant Thursday as Syracuse celebrated the -anniversary of the Great Emancipators birth.* .:&i.«S«KSHW.-ifc fciS;;kiitieiasii^»;ii.i^,a^^;:J__ ^^ ■-,*^T,,KTJ»Ci»-r-- rj^CjiS^.--^^;;^—5^ g;-i-;MC!^.J.Jg^-,v ^ 36J^ . , SYRACUSE, N. \^, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931. i.iii^^j!ii£^. Syracuse Herald-American The Night Lincoln Passed By Syracuse, New York April 25, 1976
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The Night Lincoln Passed by By RICHARD PALMER A stillness prevailed in downtown Syracuse on that Wednesday evening, April 26, 1865. The unusual somberness of the evening was broken only by the muffled conversation of people congregating at the old New York Central Railroad depot in Vanderbilt Square. All day, the telegraph sounder had been relaying the progress of the funeral cortage making its way westward from Albany bearing the remains of President Abraham Lincoln. The aged depot in Washington Street between Salina and Clinton Streets appeared old beyond its years as it stood in the shadows of four or five flickering lamps. From its smoke-stained rafters hung flags draped in mourning, their lower ends looped up to the beams supporting the roof. Drooping festoons of black and white had been crossed and twined the entire length of the old structure. Along the side walls, beneath the flags and festoons, evergreens were fastened here and there, their brilliant green harmonizing well with the scar

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