State Library of Pennsylvania - Abraham Lincoln

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About This Collection

A representative sampling of valuable items on Abraham Lincoln in the State Library's collection that have been digitized to commemorate the Lincoln Bicentennial in 2009. Items include the address of Honorable Edward Everett at the consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1893 with the dedicatory speech of President Lincoln; and the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators in Washington DC in 1865.
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[Photographs of the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators]
[Photographs of the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators]
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination, Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865, Slavery -- United States, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes, United States -- Politics and government, Conspiracy, Atzerodt, George A., 1835-1865, Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865, Herold, David E., 1844-1865, Powell, Lewis, United States Arm. Military Commission. Lincoln's assassins. 1865.
Pictures from the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators in Washington DC, and photos of General Hartranft and his men, both at the hanging and at a reunion 23 years later.