President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral caisson / photography by Geo. O. Johnson, Seat Pleasant, Md. – Historic Photograph 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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This rare historic photograph captures President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral caisson / photography by Geo. O. Johnson, Seat Pleasant, Md. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral caisson / photography by Geo. O. Johnson, Seat Pleasant, Md.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, and this print records the military caisson that carried his casket through Washington, D.C., during the funeral procession. The photographer, George Otis Johnson, was a Maryland commercial photographer working out of Seat Pleasant, and his copyrighted image captures the solemn march that drew large crowds to the streets. Funeral processions of this kind followed long-standing ceremonial traditions in which the casket rode on a horse-drawn gun carriage, a custom that gave the nation's grief a visible and dignified form.
| Created / published | c1945. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | J37870 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by George Otis Johnson. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Death & burial. Funeral processions--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-196223 |
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