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Lincoln Funeral Train, Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Harrisburg, Pa.

Artist David Clark Burnite (American, 1833 - 1866)

CultureAmerican

DateApril 22, 1865

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 × 13 in. (25.4 × 33 cm)
Overall, Support: 12 7/16 × 15 13/16 in. (31.6 × 40.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.317

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. Photograph of a brick train stationpositioned behind a train which is diagonally depicted across the frame of the picture.This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_(Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextDavid Clark Burnite American, 1833−1886 Lincoln Funeral Train, Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Harrisburg, Pa., 1865 Albumen print (photograph) Three hundred mourners accompanied Lincoln’s casket by train on its 13-day tour, which included an overnight stop in Harrisburg, Pa., on April 21, 1865. Also aboard were the remains of Lincoln’s third son Willie, who had become ill and died in Washington, D.C., in 1862. After Lincoln was killed, Willie’s casket was exhumed from its burial site in Georgetown and transported to Springfield, Ill., so that father and son could rest together. As the funeral train traveled across the nation, onlookers identified the precise carriage containing these two bodies by the extra flags on its side, seen in this photograph. Gift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange 98.32.317 Exhibition History"Shooting Lincoln: Photography and the 16th President," Chrysler Museum of Art, February 10 - July 5, 2015.