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New York -- receiving and removing dead bodies at the morgue

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809555


Item data

Title

New York -- receiving and removing dead bodies at the morgue

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Riots

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1880 - 1889 (Questionable)

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Rio

Subjects

Riots -- New York (State) -- New York
Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863
Carts & wagons -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1860-1869
Coffins -- 1860-1869
Morgues & mortuaries -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1860-1869

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Notes

Content: Written on border: "Draft Riots."
Source Note: Great riots : the great riots of New York City the Railroad riots of 1877. [s.n.] [188-?]).

Physical Description

Extent: 1 print : b ; 10 x 11 cm. (3 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17539717
Barcode: 33333159173224
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c70b72f0-c55f-012f-03e5-58d385a7bc34

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1880

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "New York -- receiving and removing dead bodies at the morgue" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1880 - 1889. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c70b72f0-c55f-012f-03e5-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1880 - 1889). New York -- receiving and removing dead bodies at the morgue Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c70b72f0-c55f-012f-03e5-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "New York -- receiving and removing dead bodies at the morgue" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c70b72f0-c55f-012f-03e5-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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