Photo, Print, Drawing Funeral Car Used at the Obsequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865. Designed and Built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, Southeast Corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia. Funeral Car, Used at the Obsequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865. Designed and Built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, Southeast Corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia
About this Item
Title
- Funeral Car Used at the Obsequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865. Designed and Built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, Southeast Corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia.
Other Title
- Funeral Car, Used at the Obsequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865. Designed and Built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, Southeast Corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia
Summary
- This tinted and hand-colored lithograph from 1865 depicts the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower-covered casket of President Abraham Lincoln to Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Funeral officials, dressed in black and wearing top hats, attend the open-air funeral car. The car, which is drawn by eight horses, has a canopy and is draped in black cloth. Mourners, including an African American man and woman, line the street. The artist, Charles P. Tholey (1832--95), was born in Germany and immigrated to Philadelphia with his father and brother circa 1848. They worked as lithographers, engravers, and pastel portraitists in Philadelphia in the mid-19th century. Tholey delineated lithographs and depicted cityscape views, landscapes, and historical scenes. The lithograph was printed by Jacob Haehnlen (1824--92), a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Haehnlen, who was of German ancestry, relocated to Philadelphia in 1841. He opened a "lithographic & fancy printing establishment" circa 1859, which he operated for more than a decade.
Names
- Tholey, Charles P., died 1898 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Printed by J. Haehnlen, 1865.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1865-04-22
- - Advertising
- - Cities and towns
- - Funeral rites and ceremonies
- - Horse-drawn vehicles
- - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- - Lithographs
- - Parades and processions
- - Sepulchral monuments
- - Street scenes
- - Undertakers and undertaking
- - Wagons
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 289"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone and hand-colored ; 60 x 78 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Philadelphia on Stone
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670459
Online Format
- compressed data
- image