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Wilson & Hood [Lincoln funeral parade, stereocard]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05136.38 Author/Creator: Wilson & Hood Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Photograph Date: 1815-1860 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 9.2 cm, Width: 18.2 cm Order a Copy

Yellow mount. Pencil inscription on verso: "View looking South from 6th and Chestnut St., crowd waiting to see body of Abraham Lincoln, April 1865." Similar to image #37, with slightly larger crowd.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Brady, Mathew B., 1822-1896

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