2948.
The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865. 2-cent tax stamp on verso.
The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865. Label for H. Ropes & Co, New York on verso.
Funeral of President Lincoln, N.Y. City. 7th Regiment passing in view. This is the image which supposedly shows 6 1/2 year old Theodore Roosevelt in the window at left.
No. 353.–Abraham Lincoln’s Catafalque. Lincoln’s coffin was borne uptown by Peter Relyea’s huge and elaborately decorated hearse, which was drawn by sixteen horses.
President Lincoln’s Funeral Car. No. 586. Penned writing on verso claims that this photo is by Gurney but I think it is by Stacy.
345–Military on Broadway. Library of Congress site says this is probably during Lincoln’s funeral procession in NYC April 24-25, 1865.
Col. Frederick George D’Utassy (11/26/27-5/5/92) was an officer in the Union Army in the Civil War who led the famous Garibaldi Guard, or 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, from 1861 to 1863. The flamboyant Hungarian Colonel was court-martialed in 1863 for fraud and conduct prejudicial to military discipline.
Walt Whitman, 1879. With Harold Johnston. This is a cropped version of Kurtz’s photo of Whitman with “Kitty” (Katherine Devereux) and “Harry” (Harold Hugh) Johnston. Kitty has been doctored out and a clutch of grass added to Harry’s hand. A child said “What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands.”
Walt Whitman. From the Walt Whitman Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1: “A Previously Unknown Whitman Photograph: This photograph was taken sometime in the late 1870s or early 1880s. The photographer is unknown. It appears courtesy of the owner, Jeffrey Kraus, and is part of the Jeffrey Kraus Collection. The photo is similar to two taken by Frederick Gutekunst in 1880, though Whitman is wearing a darker hat and a different coat here. The only other photos showing Whitman with a hat as dark as this one are a J. W. Black photo in 1860 and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886.”
Prominent Portraits. No. 2968. Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of United States. 3-cent tax stamp.
No. 2968. Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. This is Lincoln’s first sitting in Washington and was made by Alexander Gardner in Brady’s studio on February 24, 1861. Five poses of Lincoln were made that day. In this image we can see that Lincoln had just looked at his watch which he holds open in his right hand, and he was probably concerned with all the time it was taking to prepare the lighting and the plates. Amazingly this view has additions of black borders on the sides and at the center, clearly indicating that this was someone’s mourning portrait of Lincoln following his assassination. There is also a missing tax stamp on verso which further indicates that this was done between mid-April 1865 and the summer of 1866.