Arch at Twelfth St., Chicago, President Abraham Lincoln's hearse and young ladies (LOC)

    Fassett, S. M. (Samuel Montague), photographer.

    Arch at Twelfth St., Chicago, President Abraham Lincoln's hearse and young ladies

    [Chicago, 1865]

    1 photographic print : albumen ; 12 1/4 x 14 in.

    Notes:
     Photograph shows many women dressed in white accompanying President Lincoln's hearse as it passes beneath ornamental arch at 12th Street in Chicago, Illinois.

    Title from item.

    Subjects:
     Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Death & burial.
    Funeral processions--Illinois--Chicago--1860-1870.
    Memorial arches--Illinois--Chicago--1860-1870.

    Format: 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.19202

    Call Number: LOT 4324 [item]

    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      katherine_sandiego, Quay Bell, garww, Miss Sockmonkey, and 40 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Quay Bell (48 months ago | reply)

      Amazing!~

    3. Wystan (48 months ago | reply)

      In Chicago, "as the funeral car passed under a magnificent arch, thirty-six young women in white placed wreaths upon the coffin or car." --Report in Harper's Weekly. The entire report, with illustrations, may be read here:
      www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war /1865/May/ab...

    4. fw652830 (48 months ago | reply)

      The funeral train of Abraham Lincoln lingers on in our memory, across the generations of time since 1865. I still have a tear or so in my right melanomic eye lobe for Father Abraham. (eye cancer). His memory endures forever! R.I.P. Father Abraham.

    5. J o y [ deleted ] [deleted] (48 months ago | reply)

      Very nice !

    6. Pegster22 (48 months ago | reply)

      Wow, very moving!!

    7. phoppernowlin (47 months ago | reply)

      Moving. Great arch.

    8. Lú_ (45 months ago | reply)

      This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post The 1860s across the Commons.


    9. holgate_ghost (22 months ago | reply)

      The guy lounging against the fence (right ) looks as though he dont give a damn

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