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Lincoln's visits to Pennsylvania

Album Description

Abraham Lincoln's travels to and through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on significant occasions. 

1. The admission of Kansas to the Union

2. The Gettysburg Address

3. Lincoln's Funeral Train

 6 - 8   9 - 12   Social Studies/History   Abraham Lincoln   Civil War   February 22, 1861 

Lincoln's funeral

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2008680968/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph showing a wagon pulled by six white horses.
Created / Published: [1865]
Subject Headings: -  Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Death & burial
-  Funeral rites & ceremonies--1860-1870
Notes: -  Title from item.
-  Accession box no. DLC/PP-1995:149
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 19189 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19189

President's car, Alexandria

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2005696855/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows the president's rail car at the Alexandria station. Photograph probably taken in Jan. The car was later used as Lincoln's funeral car.
Contributor Names: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Created / Published: [1865]
Subject Headings: -  Railroad cars--American--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870
-  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation
Notes: -  Title from item.
-  Alternate title devised by Library staff.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ppmsca 08259 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08259

lincoln at independence hall - Kansas admission to the Union.jpg

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Abraham Lincoln  

Lincoln at Gettysburg PA.jpg

Monument at Gettysburg.jpg

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Monument where Lincoln's Gettysburg Address occurred  6 - 8    9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Abraham Lincoln  

abraham lincolns funeral train in philadelphia pa.jpg

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  6 - 8    9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Abraham Lincoln  

day of lincoln's gettysburg address.jpg

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    9 - 12    Abraham Lincoln    Social Studies/History  

Philly History Blog - Abraham Lincoln

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    9 - 12    Social Studies/History  

Philly History Blog - Abraham Lincoln

"Lincoln's Funeral," Philadelphia / taken by Ridgeway (i.e. Ridgway) Glover.

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Lincoln  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2015645310/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln's casket conveyed by funeral car through the crowd on Broad Street in Philadelphia, April 22, 1865. (Source: Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B, Twenty Days: A Narrative in text and pictures of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...New York: Harper and Row, Inc., 1965, p. 149.)
Contributor Names: Glover, Ridgway, 1831-1866, photographer
Created / Published: [Philadelphia?] : [Schreiber & Sons?], [April 1865]
Subject Headings: -  Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Death & burial
-  Hearses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1860-1870
-  Crowds--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1860-1870
-  Funeral rites & ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1860-1870
-  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Genre: Stereographs--1860-1870
Photographic prints--1860-1870
Notes: -  Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
-  Title from item.
-  Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: stereo 1s04302 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s04302
stereo 2s04302 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.2s04302

Decorating buildings on lower Broadway, NYC for Lincoln funeral procession

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Lincoln's Funeral  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2015645317/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows an aerial view of buildings on Broadway near Bowling Green draped with mourning cloth in preparation for Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession.
Contributor Names: Stacy, George, photographer
Created / Published: [New York?] : [publisher not identified] [April 24, 1865]
Subject Headings: -  Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Death & burial--New York (State)--New York
-  Funeral rites & ceremonies--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870
-  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Genre: Aerial views--1860-1870
Stereographs--1860-1870
Photographic prints--1860-1870
Notes: -  Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
-  Title from item.
-  From series: American scenery: N.Y. City & Vicinity.
-  Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: stereo 1s04308 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s04308
stereo 2s04308 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.2s04308

The Philadelphia Inquirer, [newspaper]. April 20, 1865.

Teaching Notes

  9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Lincoln's funeral     6 - 8  

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/scsm001243/

Reference note

Created / Published: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1865
Subject Headings: -  Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
-  Lincoln's funeral
-  Periodicals
-  Newspaper
-  Advertisements
-  United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Philadelphia
Genre: Periodicals
Newspaper
Advertisements
Repository: Rare Book And Special Collections Division
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lprbscsm.scsm1243