[President Abraham Lincoln's catafalque, New York City, N.Y., April 24 or 25, 1865] (LOC)

    Stacy, George, photographer.

    [President Abraham Lincoln's catafalque, New York City, N.Y., April 24 or 25, 1865]

    [New York, 1865]

    1 photographic print on stereo card mount : stereograph, albumen ; 3 1/4 x 7 in.

    Notes:
     Title devised by Library staff.

    Subjects:
     Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Death & burial.
    Funeral processions--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870.
    Catafalques--1860-1870.

    Format: Stereographs--1860-1870.
    Albumen prints--1860-1870.

    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/ppmsca.19422

    Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2008:007 [item]

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      Quay Bell and garww added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Master David XI (47 months ago | reply)

      I recall that New York City was the only site where the coffin containing the body of Lincoln was opened for public view, or rather limited view by officials checking for condition or possible problems in transport. I cannot find anything searching the Interest for more information on this opening of the coffin. I have a photograph of it.

    3. Wystan (47 months ago | reply)

      The open casket photograph, which was immediately confiscated by Secretary of War Stanton and not rediscovered until 1952, appears at the bottom of this page:
      home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln41.html

    4. fw652830 (47 months ago | reply)

      Nostalgia over Lincoln's Birthday. Back in the early 1950's, we parachial school children would have "off" February 12th to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday. And, being born on February 12th, I kinda had bragging rights with fellow school children at St John the Baptist Parachial school in Kenmore, New York. This school is on the same block as the old chapel built by the little bishop from Philadelphia, the Venerable John Neumann, who later went on to become Blessed John Neumann, and ultimately a canonized SAINT! Nostalgia. (Sigh!)

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      nikki_fowers and AbracaDebra added this photo to their favorites.

    6. BobMeade (47 months ago | reply)

      About New York City:

      "How New York Mourned Lincoln" a retrospective item from the New York Times of April 11, 1915 which mentions opening the casket for viewing by officials in City Hall.
      query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E06E 4DD153BE233A...

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      sxyblkmn added this photo to his favorites. (47 months ago)

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    9. Maritime Texas (44 months ago | reply)

      This appears not to be a true stereo image, but the same image printed side-by-side. Correct?

    10. Master David XI (44 months ago | reply)

      Maritime Texas,

      I suspect you are correct. I enlarged the photographs and found the letters on signs of stores are exactly the same in each photograph. Many small objects about the steps and sidewalk are also mirror images.

    11. Maritime Texas (44 months ago | reply)

      I started collecting stereoviews, but discovered early on that many of what were sold as stereo images were not -- gotta look close!

      I don't see any parallax shift in these images.

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      swa1959, ironfront, noraquinlan, Cryptonymus, and 4 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    13. bryaneaton (5 weeks ago | reply)

      2009 saw the publication of the book Color of Liincoln that took these photos and restored most of them then applied natural colorization to them ( www.coloroflincoln.com ). Since photography in the 1800s was exposed on glass plates, cameras had multiple lenses thatresulted in a stereoview or 3D image, As for the Lincoln coffin being opened. In the early 1950s, a young Ron Reitveld discovered the photo of Lincoln lying in state in the NY Governor's mansion in a book in the Library of Congress. It indeed was assumed to have been destroyed.

    14. Wystan (5 weeks ago | reply)

      @Maritime Texas:
      I just viewed this stereo image again, using the "freeviewing" technique (without a stereoscope). It is indeed a three-dimensional image.

    15. Maritime Texas (5 days ago | reply)

      Indeed, it is 3D, thanks. I converted it to a red/cyan image here:

      www.flickr.com/photos/36584779@N05/8235924197 /in/photostream

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