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Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865, [graphic] : Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia / Tholey.
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Creator
Tholey (Firm), lithographer.
Contributor
Printer Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824, lithographer.
Title
Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865, [graphic] : Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia / Tholey.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Printed by J. Haehnlen,
Date
[1865]
Extent
1 print: lithograph, color; 60 x 78 cm. (23.5 x 30.5 in.)
Description
Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with the President to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, dressed in black and wearing top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman.
Notes
Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1971 p. 43.
Genre
Lithographs Color 1860-1870.
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham,-1809-1865-Death and burial.
Earley, Edward S.
Catafalques--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Funeral processions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Streets--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Is part of
Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by
Wainwright 146.
Has format
TMP.objres.4403.jpg
Related resource
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W146.htm
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W146 [7929.F]
Accession number
7929.F
In Collections
Wainwright Lithograph Collection
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
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