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Title
Hearse and Coffin in Philadelphia
Creator
Glover, Ridgway, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1865
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
United States Civil War
Rights Information
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Description
Image of a large, open hearse, draped in black and white, carrying the casket of President Abraham Lincoln, surrounded by a crowd. There are buildings in the background, people standing and sitting on the roofs.
Title from printed caption on the left side of the card. Below caption: Entered according to act of Congress, on the 22nd of May, 1865, by Ridgway Glover, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Extent
1 stereograph ; 8.3 x 17 cm (3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Identifier
photST Glover (1)
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/701
Language
English
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Death and burial
Funeral rites & ceremonies. (lctgm)
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Source
Stereographs
Glover
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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