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Collection Reference Number GLC01423.01
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 
Title Congressional mourning ribbon
Date 20 July 1865
Author Ordway, K.G. (fl. 1855-1865)  
Document Type Object
Content Description Black ribbon with gold trim and fringes. There is a white rosette sewn on to the top with a gold sequence star and two sequence stars on the black part of the ribbon directly below the rosette. The entire ribbon is covered in black transparent silk. Originally accompanied by a letter from K.G. Ordway, the ribbon's designer and an inauguration day admission card for March 4 1865.
Subjects Assassination  Lincoln Assassination  President  Death  Congress  Government and Civics  
People Ordway, K.G. (fl. 1855-1865)  Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)  
Place written s.l.
Theme The American Civil War; The Presidency
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Related documents K.G. Ordway to Orlando Kellogg explaning the accompanying congressional mourning ribbon  Card admitting family of Orlando Kellog to Presidential inauguration