Sickles funeral, 5/8/14 – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Sickles funeral, 5/8/14, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sickles funeral, 5/8/14
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Daniel Sickles, the Union general who lost a leg at Gettysburg in 1863, died in the spring of 1914 at age 94, and this glass negative records the funeral that followed. Sickles also served as a New York congressman and as American minister to Spain, which made him one of the more colorful public figures of the late nineteenth century. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, made the negative, and its date of May 8, 1914 comes from agency data that has not been independently verified. The picture is a reminder of how the Civil War generation was still being honored and mourned half a century after the war ended.
| Created / published | 5/8/14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17437 |
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