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Collection Reference Number GLC00382
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title Funeral ribbon
Date 15 April 1865
Document Type Object
Content Description Brown velvet with silver fringe surmounted by a tin eagle with tintype portrait of Lincoln in metal frame. Participating mourners of the funeral procession were required to wear funeral ribbons.
Subjects Assassination  President  Civil War  Death  Lincoln Assassination  
People Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)  
Place written [s.l.]
Theme The American Civil War; The Presidency
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945