Rare black-bordered 4 x 2.5 admission card for the funeral services of Frederick Douglass, which reads: “Admit to the Obsequies of Frederick Douglass, Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, February 25, 1895.” In fine condition. Douglass died of a heart attack at his home on Cedar Hill in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., after attending a meeting of the National Council of Women. His funeral took place on February 25, 1895, at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church and was attended by thousands of the most prominent members of both white and African-American Washingtonian society, including Susan B. Anthony, Senator John Sherman, Supreme Court Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan, Blanche Kelso Bruce, John R. Lynch, and John Francis Cook, Jr.
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