Image of a woman in a cemetery leaning against a military tombstone with clasped hands crying and mourning the loss of soldier husband; her baby lies sleeping wrapped in blankets against a smaller headstone next to her; man and woman with flowers entering graveyard gate at right in background. "Published by Caldwell & Co. 37 Park Row, N.Y."--text, bottom left margin.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862, by Caldwell & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."--text, bottom center margin.
"Lith. by Thomas & Eno, 37 Park Row, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 57.15 x 71.12 cm (22 1/2 x 28 in.)
Cemeteries--Pictorial works Gravestones--Pictorial works Grief--Pictorial works Families--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Women--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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