[Rarebooks] FS: 1889 Photo Trade Card for “President Lincoln’s Undertaker”

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1889 Photo Trade Card for “President Lincoln’s Undertaker” of Lincoln’s 
New York Funeral Procession.  $950

A dramatic oversized 1889 “trade card” for Peter Relyea of Brooklyn, New 
York, “Practical Undertaker - Undertaker for President Lincoln, New 
York, April 26th, 1865”. After Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 
1865, his body was returned to Springfield, Illinois by a funeral train 
which stopped in several northern cities. It was in New York on April 
24-25 [Relyea seems to have mis-remembered the date], and on April 21 
the city had put undertaker Peter Relyea in charge of designing and 
building an appropriate catafalque on which the coffin would be 
transported to and from City Hall, where it would lie in state. Relyea 
and 60 employees spent 3 sleepless days and nights building the grand 
catafalque, which was so large that it required 16 horses to move it 
through the streets. The sleepless nights were worth the trouble- Relyea 
was paid $9,000 and was given the ultimate accolade with which to 
impress clients. This card is a photo by Charles Eisenman of a painting 
of the catafalque and procession by an unidentified artist, and has 
Relyea’s undertaker advertisement on the back.  Card. 6.5”x4.5”. Minor 
soil, light wear.  [44298]

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