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The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y. Jan. 1864. – Antique Print

The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y. Jan. 1864., [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1864. — antique lithograph
The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y. Jan. 1864., [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1864.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 antique lithograph captures The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y. Jan. 1864. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The body of the most Revd. Archbishop Hughes, lying in state: at St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y. Jan. 1864.

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The print records the body of Archbishop John Hughes lying in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York in January 1864. Hughes, who led the New York church from 1842 and became its first archbishop in 1850, died on January 3 of that year, and the viewing drew large crowds of mourners. The cathedral in use at the time stood on Mott Street, since the Fifth Avenue church was not completed until 1879. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for inexpensive lithographs of current events, issued the image soon after the funeral, so it offers a record of how a famous public death was presented to the city.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1864.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0652.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,087 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174111

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