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Casket Arranged For Wake

Collection: This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs
Date: ca. 1897; 1892 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Identifier: aql:12074 jfw-000358 jfw-000358.tif

Description: Chairs and floral displays are arranged around an open coffin in the dancing pavilion of Gaiser's Hotel. This may be for the wake of Louis C. Gaiser, who died March 30, 1897.

Collection : aql:11775; vital:1

Creator : Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.

Date : ca. 1897; 1892

Summary/Description : Chairs and floral displays are arranged around an open coffin in the dancing pavilion of Gaiser's Hotel. This may be for the wake of Louis C. Gaiser, who died March 30, 1897.

Subject : Coffins; Dance halls

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : 13th Street (now College Point Boulevard) at 3rd Avenue (now 15th Avenue), College Point, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:12074 jfw-000358 jfw-000358.tif

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Subject:
Coffins; Dance halls
Rights Notice
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