Gen'l U.S. Grant's steel casket – 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'l U.S. Grant's steel casket, 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'l U.S. Grant's steel casket
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The particular interest of this sheet is its subject: the steel casket that held the body of Ulysses S. Grant after he died at Mount McGregor, near Saratoga Springs, New York, in July 1885. The metal case was used during the period of public mourning that followed, when crowds in New York filed past and the funeral procession moved through the city. Photographs of the casket and its surroundings were widely sold as souvenirs of that national mourning, and this sheet, which carries the New York location on its reverse, shows how the public tried to keep hold of the moment.
| Created / published | c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 photographic prints (one sheet). |
| Notes | Zeph F. Magill |
| Subjects | New York--verso." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,324 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142845 |
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