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President William McKinley antique memorial memento mori ornate wood, gesso and glass framed tribute. Assassinated 25th President of the United States. One of three martyred elected officials, along with Lincoln and Garfield to become a trinity often portrayed on EAPG glass. Produced by the famous Home Art Picture Company a most popular late Victorian art house.This huge mourning remembrance measures thirty by twenty six inches and is quite powerful in appearance. Rare political Presidential memorabilia. Wonderful late Victorian frame, with bold graphics. Great gift for the politician in your life.
Succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, this along with the death of Queen Victoria, marked the end of an age. McKinley was shot by Leon F. Czolgosz, a Republican turned Anarchist, on September 6, 1901, while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He died of blood poisoning from his infected wounds, at 2:15 a.m. on Saturday September 14, 1901. Noticed on the Wikipedia web site he had a parrot named Washington Post.
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Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!
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