President Roosevelt mourning for the dead. Standing by the casket of the late president, as the body lay in state in the City Hall at Buffalo / T. Dart Walker. – 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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President Roosevelt mourning for the dead. Standing by the casket of the late president, as the body lay in state in the City Hall at Buffalo / T. Dart Walker. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 Roosevelt mourning for the dead. Standing by the casket of the late president, as the body lay in state in the City Hall at Buffalo / T. Dart Walker.
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Few pictures from the week of President William McKinley's death show Theodore Roosevelt so plainly in grief: here he stands beside the casket as McKinley's body lies in state in Buffalo's City Hall. McKinley had been shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, on September 14. Roosevelt took the oath of office that same day, and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly ran T. Dart Walker's view of the scene on its cover on September 28, 1901. The halftone process, which let magazines reproduce photographs directly on the printed page, is part of what makes the image worth a closer look.
| Created / published | 1901 Sept. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated weekly, 1901 Sept. 28, cover, p. 277. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Public appearances. McKinley, William,--1843-1901--Death & burial. Lying in state--New York (State)--Buffalo--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,060 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167509 |
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