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Wowza~talk about stepping back in history~thanks~

Fantastic photo of a great man in history. I only wonder why this photo is flipped. When flipped horizontal, it reads ....... " lincoln's funeral " written on the top. Just wondering ~

The photo, as presented here, is correctly oriented. If you look at one of the archival TIFFs on the LOC website, which have much higher resolution, you can see several signs on the buildings; they're not flipped. Here's the explanation: Remember that this is a glass plate negative; it's simply a big, clear glass shelf with photographic emulsion coated on it. (The Victorians didn't have the plastics used in modern "film"; the best they could do was clunky, fragile glass.) So, the unknown archivist who wrote "lincoln's funeral" simply wrote it on the wrong side of the plate, so that it came out backward when printed. It didn't really matter, since the text was intended to be cropped out of prints anyway. It was just there as an indexing aid.

Very moving. He was a great and special president. One in Fourty-four.

The solemn funeral procession treks its way up the nationally famous Pennsylvannia Avenue, but the memory of Father Abraham Lincoln will simply endure forever in the hearts of free men everywhere. Well done, Father Abraham...enter into the kingdom! 1809-2009. The BICENTENNIAL of Abraham Lincoln.

This photo and the other one (N° LC-B2- 2367-1) are marqued : FEB 15 1912. It could be this championship : query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9504EEDE133AE6...

There is not a pocket in the corner of the table. He must be playing Billiards.

Thanks for making the distinction! We'll fix the title in the source data and reload the description.

I was thrilled to come across this photograph of my great-grandfather. I had never seen it before. He achieved some renown for his skill at balkline billiards, played for and won a number of titles. Harold Hill makes reference to balkline in the show-stopping number "Trouble" from Meredith Willson's Broadway triumph "The Music Man." According to "Professor" Hill, "It takes judgment, brains, and maturity/To score in the balkline game."

Caption written on the back of this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/9843660033/