Details
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