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Showing posts with label mourning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mourning. Show all posts
Monday, April 10, 2017
Stereoview Scene of Three Children and a Translucent Angel Posing Around a Tombstone Titled "The Orphans at Their Mother’s Grave" (1889)
Stereoview scene of three children and a translucent angel posing around a tombstone titled “The orphans at their mother’s grave,“ 1889. By Melander and Brother.
Source: Library of Congress.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Carte De Visite View of the Bank of the Republic Building Draped in Mourning and a Busy Broadway in New York City, New York (1865)
Carte de visite view of a busy Broadway in New York City, New York, c. 1865. The Bank of the Republic building visible on the corner is draped in mourning possibly in memory of Abraham Lincoln. By George Stacy.
Source: Library of Congress.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Daguerreotype of an Unidentified Man Posing Behind the Grave of Robert Barnard in San Francisco, California (1856)
Daguerreotype of an unidentified man posing behind the grave of Robert Barnard in San Francisco, California, 1856. By J. M. Ford.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
A Group of Mourners Posing in Front of Abraham Lincoln’s Former Home in the 1840′s Named the Globe Tavern Sometime After Lincoln’s Assassination in Springfield, Illinois (1865)
A group of mourners posing in front of Abraham Lincoln’s former home in the 1840′s named the Globe Tavern sometime after Lincoln’s assassination in Springfield, Illinois, 1865. By Samuel Montague Fasset.
Source.
Monday, April 13, 2015
View of a Large Crowd Mourning the Death of President Abraham Lincoln in Court House Square a Few Days After his Assassination in Bloomington, Illinois (1865)
View of a large crowd mourning the death of President Abraham Lincoln in Court House Square a few days after his assassination in Bloomington, Illinois, April 1865. By J. R. Tankersley.
More information.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
View of People Posing in Front of Abraham Lincoln's House Draped in Mourning Sometime After Lincoln's Assassination in Springfield, Illinois (1865)
View of people posing in front of Abraham Lincoln's house draped in mourning sometime after Lincoln's assassination in Springfield, Illinois, 1865. The horse is probably one owned by Lincoln named Old Robin.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Two Hand-Colored Tintype Postmortem Portraits of the Mother and Father of Union Soldier John Peter Bailey Posing His Body (1865)
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| Reuben Bailey with his son John Peter Bailey. |
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| Rebecca Bailey with her son John Peter Bailey. |
Two hand-colored tintype postmortem portraits of the mother and father of Union soldier John Peter Bailey from Company F of the 6th Ohio Cavalry posing his body on March 31, 1865. He died at home in Newton Falls, Ohio, from the effects of disease and starvation as a result of his time at the Confederate prison camp in Salisbury, North Carolina. Images from the American Experience documentary called Death and the Civil War.
Many thanks to the West Family blog for all of the additional information.
Find A Grave entry for John Peter Bailey.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Time-lapse Photographic Portrait of Union Soldier Francis E. Brownell (1862)
Time-lapse photographic portrait of Union Zouave Francis E. Brownell, 1862. Brownell killed secessionist James W. Jackson shortly after Jackson shot Union Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth in the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 24, 1861. Brownell is possibly standing on the large Confederate flag captured in the incident for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
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