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Source: Sphere Source type: magazine Document type: photograph Document title: “The Coffin Being Carried up the Steps of the Capitol at Washington” Image size (in source, approx. h x w): unknown Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: 5 October 1901 Volume number: 7 Issue number: 89 Pagination: ii |
| Citation |
| “The Coffin Being Carried up the Steps of the Capitol at Washington.” Sphere 5 Oct. 1901 v7n89: p. ii. |
| Transcription |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley funeral services (Washington, DC: photographs). |
| Named persons |
| none. |
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Descriptive text accompanying the caption reads: “The body of the President
lay in state on September 17 in the Rotunda, a circular building forming
the centre of the Capitol, and sorrowful crowds passed through the building
all day long. On the 18th it was taken for burial to his old home, Canton,
Ohio.”
Title herein taken from caption.
Image courtesy of HathiTrust. |
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The Coffin Being Carried up the Steps of the Capitol at Washington