Details
Creator Schreiber & Glover, photographer.
Title [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic] / Schreiber & Glover, photographers, no. 818 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date April 22, 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing the procession of Lincoln's catafalque among crowds of mourners congesting the street and sidewalks at Sixth and Chestnut. Businesses line the street, including B.C. Worthington, wholesale domestic and foreign cigar dealer (102 South 6th). Also shows a recruitment poster, advertising enlistment salaries for "Maj. Gen. Hancock's Army Corps," adorning a storefront; spectators sitting in windows and on awning frames; and members of the crowd carrying a large broadside illustrated with an American flag.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Photographer's label pasted on verso.
Manuscript note on verso: 6th & Chestnut Phila.
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.
Funeral processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Catafalques -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grief.
Cigar industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Schreiber & Glover - processions [P.9161.3]
Accession number P.9161.3