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Lincoln’s Tomb, Oak Ridge Ceetery, Springfield, Illinois. Robert Lawton image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

University of Virginia official donates rare Lincoln funeral pass

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Lincoln’s Tomb, Oak Ridge Ceetery, Springfield, Illinois. Robert Lawton image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Lincoln’s Tomb, Oak Ridge Ceetery, Springfield, Illinois. Robert Lawton image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – The University of Virginia has received an original entrance pass to President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral.

The university’s Center for Politics announced the gift from its director, Larry J. Sabato, on Tuesday.

The small, black-bordered pass was required for admittance to the funeral in Washington on April 19, 1865. The Center for Politics says only about six of the 600 passes that were printed still exist.

Sabato tells The Daily Progress that he won the pass at an online auction. He wouldn’t say how much he paid for it.

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ADDITIONAL IMAGES OF NOTE

Lincoln’s Tomb, Oak Ridge Ceetery, Springfield, Illinois. Robert Lawton image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Lincoln’s Tomb, Oak Ridge Ceetery, Springfield, Illinois. Robert Lawton image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
An album of carte-de-visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession was the top-selling lot of Cowan’s American History auction conducted Dec. 9, 2009, selling for $27,025. The album's images included photos of the funeral train that carried Lincoln's casket on its nine-stop procession. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Cowan's Auctions Inc.
An album of carte-de-visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession was the top-selling lot of Cowan’s American History auction conducted Dec. 9, 2009, selling for $27,025. The album’s images included photos of the funeral train that carried Lincoln’s casket on its nine-stop procession. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Cowan’s Auctions Inc.