Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
James A. Garfield Funeral
- Date of Work
- September 1881
- Credit
- Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
James A. Garfield Funeral
This black and white photograph of the North Portico of the White House shows the entire building wrapped in black ribbons following the death of President James Garfield on September 19, 1881. Although Garfield was shot on July 2, he was ill following the assassination attempt for more than two months before succumbing to complications of the shooting.
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