Details
Creator Schreiber & Glover, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
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 8 x 8 cm.(3 x 3 in.)
Description View showing Lincoln's catafalque followed by crowds of mourners congesting the street and sidewalk at Sixth and Chestnut. Businesses line the route, including B. C. Worthington, wholesale domestic and foreign cigar dealer (102 South 6th). Also shows soldiers holding back the crowd; 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, which was used as a barricade.
Notes Name of photographer supplied by variant. (P.9161.3).
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Unmounted half of stereograph.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
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 Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Processions [5792.F.48e]
Accession number 5792.F.48e