Showing posts with label oak ridge cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oak ridge cemetery. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2015

Carte De Visite View of Union Soldiers and Other Mourners Posing Around the Receiving Vault in Oak Ridge Cemetery Where President Abraham Lincoln and His Son Were Temporarily Buried in Springfield, Illinois (1865)


Carte de visite view of Union soldiers and other unidentified mourners posing around the receiving vault in Oak Ridge Cemetery where President Abraham Lincoln and his son, William Wallace Lincoln, were temporarily buried in Springfield, Illinois, c. 1865.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Two Photographs Taken During President Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois (1865)

 


Two photographs taken during President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral when his casket as well as the one of his son, William Wallace Lincoln, was temporarily placed in the receiving vault of Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865. By Samuel Montague Fassett.

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