[Rarebooks] FS: Items Related to the 1881 Funeral of President James A. Garfield
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Items Related to the 1881 Funeral of President James A. Garfield.
President Garfield was shot at a train station on July 2, 1881, after
only a few months in office, and died on September 19th. His body lay in
state at the Capitol and was then taken by train to Cleveland where more
than 150,000 people paid their respects before his burial on September
26th. His body was temporarily interred in Cleveland's Lake View
Cemetery while funds were raised for a permanent memorial and resting
place at the cemetery, in which he was re-interred with great ceremony
on May 19, 1890.
This lot consists of:
- A card labeled “Relic from the Catafalque of President Garfield,
Cleveland Ohio, September 26th, 1881”, which has a small but handsome
rendering of the structure;
- A sheet of the “Garfield Obsequies, September 26, 1881, Cleveland”;
- A sheet circulated by the Garfield Monument Fund, dated October 28,
1881, seeking donations for the erection of the permanent
monument/mausoleum; a
- An envelope postmarked Cleveland, October 29, hand addressed to an
address in New York City, with the black-bordered return address of the
“Relic Bureau, Garfield Obsequies, Cleveland, O.”.
4 pieces. Some light soil and wear. Monument Fund sheet printed on thin
paper with some separation along the folds. [43245] $275
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