Lincoln's Funeral, Union Square - 1865

 

Composition of stereograph "American Views" showing horse-drawn carriages in Lincoln's funeral procession on Broadway proceeding toward Union Square, New York City. Publisher not identified. Another photo taken on the same day by the same publisher is shown below. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Lincoln's body lay in state in New York's City Hall on April 24th and 25th, 1865. The four-story brownstone mansion on the left (849 Broadway) was the home of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt (1794-1871), grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt. It was demolished by 1872. The procession, watched by crowds of pedestrians, also passed in other cities, before burial in Springfield, Illinois on May 4th.  In 1870, the Lincoln Monument, was installed in Union Square.

 

Lincoln 1865

 

 

 

Union Square

 

◄ Old City of New York

 

 

20th century

 

Procession

 

Union Square 19th Century

 

Another photograph taken on the same day by the same publisher, same source.

 

Old City New York

 

Parade 1919

 

Grant's Tomb

 

President Lincoln

 

Lincoln's Funeral, Union Square - 1865

 

7th Regiment

Looking north from Broome Street.

 

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