Photograph contains an image of the railroad car specially made for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The car was used to transport Lincoln's remains in 1865 it was purchased by the Union Pacific railroad in 1866. The photograph was taken at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898. The photograph has copyright date cut off. Item was issued in part as an advertisement for the Union Pacific railroad.
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Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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