A group of ten (10) newspapers reporting on the assassination and death of President James A. Garfield, including illustrated examples. Items include: 

1. Police Gazette Extra. [New York], [19 September 1881]. 8 pages, folio, 11 x 16 in. 

Profusely illustrated extra edition of the Police Gazette with President Garfield's last moments with his wife on the front cover. Includes three additional full-page composite illustrations featuring the major players and vignettes of Garfield's assassination and death. 

2. Two copies. The Evening Telegram. Vol. XV, No. 4,994. New York, 20 September 1881. 4 pages, folio, 15 7/8 x 22 3/4 in.  

3. New York Herald. 20 September 1881. 8 pages only (incomplete issue), folio, 16 1/8 x  22 7/8 in. 

Features portraits of the Late President Garfield and the newly incumbent President Chester A. Arthur. 

4. New York Tribune. Vol. XL, No. 2,089. New York, 21 September 1881. 16 pages, folio, 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. 

5. The New-York Weekly Times. Vol. XXI, No. 1566. New York, 21 September 1881. 8 pages, folio, 18 x 23 1/4 in. 

6. Weekly State Gazette. Vol. XCIV, No. 38. Trenton, New Jersey, 22 September 1881. 8 pages, 15 3/4 x 22 3/8 in. 

7. The New York Herald. No. 16,467. New York, 22 September 1881. 16 pages, folio, 15 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.  

8. The New York Herald. No. 16,471. New York, 26 September 1881. 10 pages, folio, 15 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.

9. The New York Weekly Times. Vol. XXXI, No. 1567. New York, 28 September 1881. 8 pages, 18 1/4 x 23 in. 

[Politics, Presidents, James A. Garfield, James Garfield, Assassination, Assassin, Charles Guiteau, Death by Lightning]  [Broadsides, Ephemera, Printing, Posters, Handbills, Documents, Newspapers]