Gen. U.S. Grant, lying in state, in City Hall, New York City / Hill Bros., New York City. – Antique Wall Art
(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 Gen. U.S. Grant, lying in state, in City Hall, New York City / Hill Bros., New York City., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gen. U.S. Grant, lying in state, in City Hall, New York City / Hill Bros., New York City.
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Grant's body lay in state in New York City Hall in August 1885, days after the former president died at his Mount McGregor home in upstate New York on July 23. This card photograph by the Hill Brothers studio, copyrighted by Hugh Montgomery Hill, records the rotunda arrangement that drew large crowds of mourners before the funeral procession to Riverside Park, where Grant was entombed in 1897. Commercial studios like Hill's sold such cards widely, so they became one of the most common ways ordinary Americans kept a memento of the national mourning.
| Created / published | c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890.Card photographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by Hugh Montgomery Hill. No. 2. |
| Subjects | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Death & burial--New York (State)--New York. Lying in state--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,441 × 1,114 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215957 |
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