• i guess these are people on top of the buildings? - *cindi
  • Yes, if one clicks on the enlarged view, one can clearly see that these are people up here. - Wystan
  • Think this says 'Lincoln Funeral' backwards. As this is a glass plate....I find it fascinating too that someone wrote this at the time! - seeks2dream-Soz! On & Off-at the Mo
  • Is she holding an American flag, I wonder? - bredlo
  • In the enlargement, this appears to be a hoop skirt with a pattern of wide stripes -- probably not a flag. - Wystan
  • not the kind of thing you'd normally wear to a funeral - Dill Pixels
  • My guess is that funeral attire, like bridal attire, has changed considerably since 1865. It's probably her Sunday best. - random letters
  • or maybe she's just a damn Rebel! - Dill Pixels
  • go download the 23mb tiff file (5120x4806px.) from the loc link.

    she's wearing a plaid skirt. - lucky_dog

Lincoln's funeral on Pennsylvania Ave. (LOC)

Lincoln's funeral on Pennsylvania Ave.

[Washington, D.C. : 1865 April 19]

1 negative : glass, wet collodion ; 4 x 4 1/4 in.

Notes:
 Photo shows crowd gathered along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 1865, for the procession of President Abraham Lincoln's hearse from the funeral held at the White House to the U.S. Capitol, where his body lay in state before traveling by train to Springfield, Illinois, for burial.

Title and date from information on negative sleeve and Library staff.
Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
 Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865.
Funeral rites & ceremonies.
United States--District of Columbia--Washington

Format: Glass negatives--1860.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03254

Call Number: LC-BH823- 145

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Quay Bell, garww, Carla216, Sílvia Pinheiro, and 36 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Quay Bell (47 months ago | reply)

    Wowza~talk about stepping back in history~thanks~

  3. Charles Soper (47 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic photo of a great man in history.

    I only wonder why this photo is flipped.
    When flipped horizontal, it reads .......
    " lincoln's funeral " written on the top.

    Just wondering ~

  4. Matt Stevens (47 months ago | reply)

    The photo, as presented here, is correctly oriented. If you look at one of the archival TIFFs on the LOC website, which have much higher resolution, you can see several signs on the buildings; they're not flipped.

    Here's the explanation: Remember that this is a glass plate negative; it's simply a big, clear glass shelf with photographic emulsion coated on it. (The Victorians didn't have the plastics used in modern "film"; the best they could do was clunky, fragile glass.) So, the unknown archivist who wrote "lincoln's funeral" simply wrote it on the wrong side of the plate, so that it came out backward when printed. It didn't really matter, since the text was intended to be cropped out of prints anyway. It was just there as an indexing aid.

  5. 'Lillith' Olivia (47 months ago | reply)

    Very moving. He was a great and special president. One in Fourty-four.

  6. fw652830 (46 months ago | reply)

    The solemn funeral procession treks its way up the nationally famous Pennsylvannia Avenue, but the memory of Father Abraham Lincoln will simply endure forever in the hearts of free men everywhere. Well done, Father Abraham...enter into the kingdom! 1809-2009. The BICENTENNIAL of Abraham Lincoln.

  7. lucky_dog (46 months ago | reply)

    photo by Alexander Gardner

  8. MUSCLELOVEROZ [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The White House & U.S. Presidents, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  9. wiggiewormdog (41 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called sad world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  10. wiggiewormdog (41 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called piece of heaven, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  11. wiggiewormdog (41 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called soulful group, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  12. wiggiewormdog (41 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  13. gopher221 (40 months ago | reply)

    Anybody know where on Pennsylvania Avenue this was taken? I see a couple of business names, and plan to consult the City Directory for 1865, but before I schlep over to MLK...

  14. This photo was invited and added to the Dated Vintage Photographs (pre 1945) group.

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