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Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Views showing the procession past the State House of Lincoln's catafalque among crowds of mourners congesting the tree-lined street and sidewalks on the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Also shows a partial view of the awning of the Orleans Hotel and adjacent awning frame., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with rounded corners., Photographer's label pasted on verso., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Processions [5792.F.49a; P.9161.4]

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.
Description: 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., 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.
Creator: Tholey (Firm), lithographer., creator
Date: [1865]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W146.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W146 [7929.F]

Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa.]
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., 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.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: [April 22, 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Processions [5792.F.48e]

Title: President Lincoln's hearse
Description: Photographic reproduction of a print showing the five horse-team drawn catafalque carrying the flower-covered casket of the President stopped in front of a church. White men funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the horses and hearse. Mourners line the city street, including an African American man., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Henszey & Co., Photographers, No. 812 Arch St., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Henszey & Co.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Henszey & Co. - Lincoln [5792.F.48b]

Title: [Hearse and coffin in Philadelphia]
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., 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.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [8248.F.7]

Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa.]
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., 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.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - processions [P.9161.3]

Title: Funeral Car, erected by Wm. H. Moore & Son (Undertakers, No. 181 Arch St. Pha.) Especially for the occasion of the funeral obsequies of the Late President of the United States, General Zachary Taylor, Philadelphia, July 30th, 1850
Description: View showing the horse-drawn catalfaque drawn by eight white horses and led by eight grooms displayed during the mourning ceremonies arranged by Philadelphia city councils for the 12th president who died July 9, 1850. Black draping, fringes, and a canopy surmounted by an eagle figure adorn the car. Black covers are draped over the horses. The grooms wear black suits and hats. The hats are adorned with white bands that fall down the length of the men's backs. Also contains a simple border with filigree at the cornices. The July 30th funeral obsequies included a military parade, a civic procession, and a memorial sermon given by Rev. William Bacon Stevens at Christ Church., Artist's signature printed lower right on the stone., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 87, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Funeral rites [P.8970.17]

Title: Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865 Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with President Lincoln to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, attired in black suits and 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., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 289, 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., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1971, p. 43., Purchase 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Charles Tholey, Augustus Tholey, and their father, probably named Michael, worked as lithographers, engravers, and pastel portraitists in Philadelphia in the mid 19th century.
Creator: Tholey (Firm), artist
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W146 [7929.F]

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