Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln's Funeral

Are you watching The Roosevelts: An Intimate History on PBS? In typical Ken Burns style, it is both fascinating and dense and I find that I have to watch it in snippets in order to take it all in.

In the first episode, Burns briefly showed a still image of Teddy Roosevelt and his brother, Elliot, watching Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession through Union Square.

Here's the photo:

The building on the upper left side of the image was Roosevelt's grandfather's house. It's hard to make out in this copy, but Teddy and Elliot are hanging out of the open window on the second floor.

We mention this moment in Footprints in New York, along with another picture taken around the same time: the only photo of the president in his coffin. I'll post that on this blog or over at blog.insidetheapple.net soon.