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Anxious crowds reading bullitens[sic] of McKinley's condition the night he died at Buffalo – Antique Print

Anxious crowds reading bullitens[sic] of McKinley's condition the night he died at Buffalo, Niagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, Publisher, c1901. — historic photograph
Anxious crowds reading bullitens[sic] of McKinley's condition the night he died at Buffalo, Niagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, Publisher, c1901.. Historic photograph from the Buffalo collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Anxious crowds reading bullitens[sic] of McKinley's condition the night he died at Buffalo in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Crowds gather outside a Buffalo newspaper office to read posted bulletins on President William McKinley's condition, the night he died there in September 1901. McKinley had been shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, and he died eight days later, on September 14, at the Milburn House, the home of a local industrialist where he had been taken for care. Stereograph cards like this one were sold in large numbers in the early 1900s, so the image shows both a moment of national anxiety and the commercial appetite for news views of the event.

Created / publishedNiagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, Publisher, c1901.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH9823 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.
SubjectsMcKinley, William,--1843-1901--Assassination. Crowds--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan827 × 585 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194178

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