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[Hearse and coffin in Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Creator
Schreiber & Glover, photographer.
Title
[Hearse and coffin in Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date
April 22, 1865
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.75 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing the procession of Lincoln's catafalque. Military guards escort the hearse passed mourners crowding the sidewalks and the rooftops and balconies of buildings and businesses lining the 1000 block of South Broad Street. Businesses include commission merchant, M.S. Myer, and the Union House and Dining Saloon.
Notes
Attributed to Schreiber & Glover.
Title supplied from duplicate in private collection.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Manuscript note on verso:The funeral of Mr. Lincoln, Broad St., Phila., April 22, 1865.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), plate 174.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial.
Myer, M.S.
Union House and Dining Saloon.
Funeral procession -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Catafalques -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grief.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Restaurants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 1000 block.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [8248.F.7]
Accession number
8248.F.7
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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