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Already identified as the funeral of John Jacob Astor in a comment on an earlier photo (Call # LC-B2-2395-16)

Astor died when the Titanic sunk.

This photo was taken of the funeral procession of Col. John Jacob Astor IV on May 4, 1912, as it entered Trinity Church Cemetery. An estimated 5,000 people came to watch the funeral, although only a few with special passes were admitted past the cemetery gate. The view is eastward up the steep block along West 155th Street from Riverside Drive, toward Broadway. The buildings to the left are part of the Audubon Terrace complex (1908) that housed the Hispanic Society of America, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Museum of the American Indian-Heye Foundation, the American Geographical Society, the American Numismatic Society and the Church of Our Lady of Esperanza.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662868/16780821# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district...see pic on 4th page of link titled 'A Farm of 124 Acres for which in its improved state £2200 was refused'... Some of the other Dorrigo pics that appeared in this issue of the Sydney Mail are also in the PHM's collection, and they're also on the PHM's Flickr photostream...they come up if you click on the 'Sydney Mail, 4th September, 1907' tag I've added...