U.S. Grant's Tomb Attracts Crowds, Beautiful, Large, & Early Mounted Photograph -

Grant Ulysses

U.S. Grant's Tomb Attracts Crowds, Beautiful, Large, & Early Mounted Photograph

 

Mounted photograph, 17" x 14.75", front and verso. Verso contains an advertisement for "Fine Cemetery Work". New York, New York, circa May 31, 1886. Slight yellowing. Fine Condition.

The caption, in full, reads, "[handwritten] Grant, Ulysses Simpson. Funeral. / [typed] View Just In Front of Gen. Grant's Tomb. / Riverside Park, New York. / Showing part of crowd assembled to see the first decorations of the Tomb, May 31, 1886."

Grant's funeral procession – on August 8, 1885 – was seven miles long as it wound its way through New York City. It is interesting to note that of his four pallbearers, two were generals for the Union (Philip Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman), and two for the Confederacy (Simon Bolivar Bucker and Joseph Johnston). Grant was actually initially laid to rest in a temporary tomb in Riverside Park, depicted in this photograph. He was buried in his final resting place, Grant's Tomb, twelve years later after the completion of the then-largest public fundraising campaign in history.

In a savvy business move, Barre Granite of Burlington, VT uses the reverse of this photograph to advertise their "Fine Cemetery Work … Monuments and Headstones Supplied From Any Kind of Granite."

 

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

 

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