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[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]
White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26 and 29.
GLC05136.28
White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26, and 28.
GLC05136.29
Gracy, Tracy
[Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]
White mount with thin black border. Seated, half length view of Edwin Booth.
GLC05136.30
C.D. Fredericks & Co.
[Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length profile view]
White mount with gray border. Seated, half length profile view of Edwin Booth.
GLC05136.31
[Abraham Lincoln, cabinet card, standing full length view]
White mount. Standing, full length view of Lincoln with hands clasped in front. Photo from engraving.
GLC05136.32
Wilson & Hood
[Lincoln funeral parade, stereocard]
Yellow mount. View of Lincoln's funeral parade at the corner of Chestnut St., with a recruiting poster for Maj. Gen. Hancock hanging from the building on left side. Similar to image #38, with slightly smaller crowd.
GLC05136.37
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.
GLC05136.38
25 April 1865
E. & H.T. Anthony
"The Funeral of President Lincoln"
Yellow mount. Anthony's Instantaneous Views, #2950. Aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession en route to city hall.
GLC05136.39
Yellow mount. Anthony's Instantaneous Views, #2950, #2951, #2958. Aerial view of soldiers in Lincoln's funeral procession.
GLC05136.40
[Lincoln funeral at New York City Hall, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Inscription on verso: "Funeral Dirge, City Hall, New York." Shows large assembly of people gathered outside city hall, which is hung with black bunting, in addition to large banner across front that reads "The Nation Mourns."
GLC05136.41
"The Funeral Car, Broadway, New York"
Yellow mount. Shows a crowd gathered around Lincoln's hearse as it processes down the street.
GLC05136.42
[close-up view of Lincoln's hearse, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Stamp on verso: "New York, Lincoln's Catafalque No 353." Close-up view of Lincoln's hearse and casket in front of windows hung with mourning wreaths. Soldiers stand at attention along near side of hearse.
GLC05136.43
Townsend, A.C.
[aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession.
GLC05136.44
22 May 1865
Glover, Ridgeway
"Home of Lincoln"
View of front and side of Lincoln's Springfield home decorated in funerary bunting.
GLC05136.45
[Lincoln's casket, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Ink inscription on recto: "A. Lincoln's Casket." View of Lincoln's casket drapes with flowers and greenery.
GLC05136.46
Duboce, Marcel
"Stereoscopic view of Lincoln's Tomb, Negative No.1, Oak Ridge Cemetery"
Yellow mount. View of Lincoln's tomb surrounded by trees.
GLC05136.47
Wakely, G.D.
"Lincoln's County Seat"
Yellow mount. Shows two men standing on grass looking at a large white house.
GLC05136.48
1861-1865 ca.
Regiment lined up in front of brick building
Graphite inscription "Photo by Cole an Sellers." A large group of soldiers outside a brick building. "Gasworks Feneibles Co. A. 1861" in center and "Phila. Gas Works, Point Breeze" on one side. "10/05/1861 Co. A. City Gas Works Feneibles."
GLC05137.213
Path or Road through a forrest
No identification. Handwritten on back: "Hessian Camp"
GLC05137.225
1861 ca.
Fredericks & Co.
[Richard Yates]
Inlaid on paper.
GLC05177
1860 ca.
Republican "Wide-Awake," sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, election of 1860
Depicts a serious young man in a waterproof cap and cape, holding an oil torch. The image has been painted to suggest light from the torch. The "wide awakes" led processions supporting Lincoln in the election of 1860. Nevins "Emergence of Lincoln"...
GLC05187
1850s
Tieman, Daniel T.
Three portaits of a NYC reformer mayor: daguerreotype, ambrotype & later carte
The three items are: 1. Daguerreotype. Half view, seated, with left hand holding jacket label and right holding a book. Cased: 15.2 x 12.0 (2.0) cm. 2. Ambrotype half view, seated with hands in lap, no case, 8.2 x 7.1 (.6) cm. Varnished back. 3...
GLC05188
1850 ca.
Brady, Mathew B. (ca. 1823-1896)
Daniel F. Tiemann
Modern print of carte de visite by Brady-NY, tucked into slits on mount, with note of F.H. Meserve. Inscribed on mount: "Daniel F. Tiemann, mayor of New York. From a negative of M.B. Brady. The Collection of F.H. Meserve."
GLC05188.03
1889
William S. Prettyman
Oklahoma great land rush: "boomers" and towns & cities they built
Collection of fourteen photographs taken in Oklahoma (Indian) Territory at Oklahoma Station (later Oklahoma City) around the time of the land rush. The first five images show the growth of Oklahoma City from March 1889-1892. Other images include...
GLC05475
1889 March
[Oklahoma Prairie]
A group of men holding rifles and standing in front of an oxen-driven wagon train. Penciled notation on verso: "E. Hamill, Oklahoma City, March 1889."
GLC05475.01
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