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The Catafalque
Object Details
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Date
1885, published 1886
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Object Type
Photographs
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Medium
Albumen silver print
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Contributors
Published by U. S. Instantaneous Photographic Company
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Object Format
Album
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Dimensions
Image: 9 3/4 x 11 5/16 in.
Mount: 14 1/4 x 16 15/16 in. -
Inscriptions
Recto:
l.r. in image: COPYRIGHT 1886 BY THE U.S. INST. PHOTO. CO, \ 149
Mount:
l.c. [printed]: THE CATAFALQUE, \ Passing A.T. Stewart's Great Iron Block, corner Tenth Street and Broadway. \ The masses packed on elevated seats, with the crushing throng on the pavements below and far back up East Tenth Street, eager to see the last \ of the dead patriot, make a remarkable picture for all time. This Instantaneous View of the thousands of human faces is wonderful in \ its clear details, and will afford the reader hours of pleasure in closely scanning the faces, eyes and feet of the multitude so \ clearly depicted here* in an instant's time by one of our artists, perched high above the throng at a fourth-story \ window opposite, looking straight down upon the most marvelous scene ever witnessed in the world. \ *Among others, note the pair of tiny feet, as if over the head of the coffin, when in reality forty feet away. \ 149
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Collection Name
Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
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Accession Number
P1976.20.16.63
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Copyright
Public domain
Additional details
Location: Off view
Part of:
Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection
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