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Funeral procession on a street lined with onlookers, with soldiers carrying a coffin behind a horse-drawn hearse.
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Funeral procession of "Monk" Eastman, December 1920 (Library of Congress)

Underwood & Underwood photograph of the December 1920 funeral procession of "Monk" Eastman: soldiers carrying the coffin behind a horse-drawn hearse. The Library notes heavy retouching. A copy is stored here.

Date
1920-12
Kind
photograph
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
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-USZ62-134669 (b&w film copy neg.).

The Library of Congress titles this print “[Funeral procession of ‘Monk’ Eastman]” and dates it December 1920. The brackets mark a title devised by Library staff. It is an Underwood & Underwood photograph in the New York World-Telegram and the Sun collection.

The image shows soldiers carrying a coffin behind a horse-drawn hearse on a street lined with onlookers. The Library notes that the photograph is heavily retouched, so detail in the crowd should not be treated as a record of who attended.

itemFuneral 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.