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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.
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.
Prominent Portraits. No. 2968. Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of United States. 3-cent tax stamp.
Lincoln Monument, Washington, DC. Designed and Executed by Clark Mills. Note in right margin by John Meigs “view of U.S. Capitoal, Wash. D.C. (east & north sides). The monument represented in the foreground-designed by Clark Mills for the Lincoln Monument Association, is not built, but only introduced into the picture artificially.” Meigs also writes on verso “Paid $1.00 to Monument Fund-Apr. 4, 1868-Wash. D.C.”
Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 605. Group of President Lincoln, Gen. McClellan, and Suite, at Headquarters Army of Potomac, previous to reviewing the troops and the Battle-Field of Antietam, 3d Oct., 1862.
No. 602. President Lincoln and Gen’l McClellan at Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Antietam, 4th October, 1862.
602. President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan in McClellan’s Tent at Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, Oct. 4, 1862.
Wisconsin Views. No. 4. Brick Pomeroy’s Office, La Crosse. Marcus Mills “Brick” Pomeroy (also known as Mark M. Pomeroy; December 25, 1833 – May 30, 1896) was an American journalist who became notorious for his anti-Lincoln sentiment during the Civil War. Pomeroy was born in Elmira, New York in 1833. As a young man, he worked as a printer’s devil. (An apprentice in a printing establishment.) Pomeroy established the first newspaper in Corning, New York in 1854 and then moved to Wisconsin in 1857. There he was a La Crosse, Wisconsin newspaperman, editor of the La Crosse Democrat from 1860 to 1869, then editor of Pomeroy’s Democrat from 1869 to 1887 (1869 to 1879 in New York City, then in La Crosse, with branch offices in Chicago and probably elsewhere). It was during this time that he acquired the nickname “Brick”. According to one account, after he had displayed skill in writing an article, another editor said that someone that could write so well was “a perfect brick” (i.e., a good fellow). According to another account, a journalist in the eastern United States had written a series of articles about celebrities called “charcoal sketches,” and Pomeroy imitated these in a more extravagant manner, describing Wisconsin personalities and dubbing his articles “brick-dust sketches.” During the Civil War, Pomeroy initially supported preservation of the Union and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Union forces. However, he later became a Copperhead, and in an editorial he called Abraham Lincoln “fungus from the corrupt womb of bigotry and fanaticism” and a “worse tyrant and more inhuman butcher than has existed since the days of Nero…. The man who votes for Lincoln now is a traitor and murderer…. And if he is elected to misgovern for another four years, we trust some bold hand will pierce his heart with dagger point for the public good.” Pomeroy relocated to New York in 1868, and then to Chicago in 1875, also spending time in Denver before returning to New York. In later years, he became a leader of the Greenback Party and the People’s Party/Union Labor Party of Wisconsin. During the 1880s he employed African-American journalist George Edwin Taylor as city editor of Pomeroy’s Democrat. It claimed to have the largest circulation of any political newspaper in the country. In July of 1891, he visited Logan County, West Virginia and interviewed William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield. (William Anderson “Devil Anse” or “Uncle Anse” Hatfield (September 9, 1839 – January 6, 1921) was the patriarch of the West Virginian Hatfield family who led the family during the Hatfield–McCoy feud.) Pomeroy died in Brooklyn in 1896.