Funeral of "Monk" Eastman: coffin passing a guard of honor, December 1920 (Library of Congress)
Underwood & Underwood photograph in the NYWT&S collection of soldiers carrying the coffin of "Monk" Eastman past an honor guard and onlookers, December 1920. A copy is stored here.
- Date
- 1920-12
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- The Library of Congress item record states: "No known restrictions on publication." Collection: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: NYWTS - BIOG--Eastman, Monk--Gangster--Dead [item] [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-134672 (b&w film copy neg.).
The Library of Congress titles this print “Body of ‘Monk’ Eastman passing through guard of honor” and dates it December 1920. It is an Underwood & Underwood photograph in the New York World-Telegram and the Sun collection, filed under the Library’s heading for Eastman as a gangster, dead.
The image shows soldiers carrying a coffin past an honor guard and a crowd of onlookers. The rights line in the record names Underwood & Underwood and still reads “No known restrictions on publication.” The record gives no cause of death and no place beyond New York, and this page adds neither.
