Five items related to the unexpected death of the president, including: a swatch of black cloth affixed to a 5 x 4 card bearing a handwritten notation, “Cloth from covering of President McKinley’s casket”; a smaller swatch of black fabric sewn to a small envelope bearing a handwritten notation, “Sept. 18th, 1901, Engine No. 66, a piece of the drapery that decorated the engine of the McKinley funeral train”; and three different types of admission passes to various services.
