American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Death is entered into our Palaces...Death and Burial of Abraham Lincoln. A Nation Mourns His Loss. Boston: E. F. Rollins, R. Thayer, 1865. 5 x 8 in. songsheet (small loss to left edge, minor creasing). RARE: No copies sold at auction since 1946, OCLC locates 0 copies. -- President Lincoln's Favorite Poem. Philadelphia: A.W. Auner, [1865?]. 5 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. songsheet (toned, minor creasing). -- STURTEVANT, Julian Monson (1805-1886). Clipped signature ("Rev J. M. Sturtevant D.D."). N.p.,n.d. Approx. 4 7/8 x 1 in. Illinois minister and academic anti-slavery advocate, and early supporter of Lincoln's political career. -- JONES, R.S., engraver. after Mathew BRADY. A. Lincoln. Engraving, n.d., 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (trimmed, possibly cut from a book).  -- Together, 4 items. 

[With:] The New York Herald. Whole No. 10,461. New York, 20 April 1865. Provenance: B.T. Van Alen (ownership stamp above masthead). Frontpage coverage of Lincoln's New York funeral. -- New York Daily Tribune. Vol. XXV, No. 7,504. New York, 25 April 1865. Lincoln's funeral in Washington and details of the assassination. -- New York Semi-Weekly Tribune. Vol. XX, No. 2,078. New York, 25 April 1865. Accounts of the funeral train from Philadelphia, the proclamation of a day of fasting and prayer. --The Weekly Herald. Whole No. 1,448. New York: 29 April 1865. Account of the funeral train. -- Harper's Weekly. 2 issues (incomplete). New York, 1865. 2 issues numbering: Vol. IX, No. 439, 27 May 1865, coverage of the funerals in Springfield, New York,  and Chicago; Vol. IX, No. 444, 1 July 1865, with reporting and illustrations of the military commission and trial of the conspirators. -- Together, 6 newspapers from 1865 reporting on Lincoln's funerals and the trial of the conspirators. 

[Also with:] The New York Herald. Whole no. 10459. New York: [1895?]. 17 x 22 7/8 in. Reprint edition, probably published on the 30th anniversary in 1895. With portrait of Lincoln and masthead bearing the 15 April 1865 date. -- WITT, Peter. Abraham Lincoln The Man of Sorrow. Cleveland, OH: The Standard Oil Company, [1938]. 12mo. Booklet was published on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. --  11 "Old Abe" handbills/bookmarks. N.p., n.d. Each 6 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. -- Together, 13 items.