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Other Bain/LOC photos of the funeral of General Dan Sickles:

General Sickles died on May 3, 1914. The funeral, in New York City, was held on May 8. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, D. C. New York Times story, May 9, 1914, of the funeral in New York City, at St. Patrick's Cathedral: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9807E0D71E39E6...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Edgar_Sickles

NYT of May 9, 1914 reports that a "delegation of visiting Shriners from California, dressed in full regalia, took part in pursuit of a young man who had been attempting to serve papers on an actress and was mistaken for a thief!! query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E04E0D71E39E633A...

Funny!

The visiting shriners gave a concert in City Hall Park: Three jolly shriners in costume: More California Shriners cutting loose in the big city:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles

Other Bain/LOC photos of the New York City funeral of General Daniel Sickles:

Thank you Richard Arthur Norton for the details on Daniel Sickles. We will include some of them when we update the description. Thanks to Wystan for gathering up the related photographs.

Other Bain/LOC photos of Gen. Sickles' funeral in New York City, May 8, 1914: The one-legged General Dan Sickles last appeared in this photostream on the Fourth of July, 1913, in attendance at the Golden Anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg. He was 90 years old:

Story of the New York City funeral service at St. Patrick's Cathedral, from the New York Times, May 9, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9807E0D71E39E6...