Lincoln’s Death in Peterson House, Harpers Weekly

An engraving of a wallpapered room in which people stand and sit around the bed where the President lays.

This illustration from Harper’s Weekly, May 6, 1865, is one of many depictions of the room at the Petersen House where Lincoln lay dying.
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