Petrosino's coffin arriving at his widow's home, 9 April 1909 (Bain News Service)
Bain News Service photograph captioned on the negative "Petrosino's remains arriving at his widow's home Apr. 9/09": police officers lift the coffin from a hearse in a New York street. A copy is stored here.
- Date
- 1909-04-09
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- The Library of Congress rights advisory on the item record reads: "No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html" Collection: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: LC-B2- 679-11 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-03254.
The Library of Congress catalogs this Bain News Service glass negative as “Coffin of Petrosino arriving at his widow’s home.” The caption written on the negative reads “Petrosino’s remains arriving at his widow’s home Apr. 9/09.” The Library notes that the title comes from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service and that the date, 4/9/09, is the date created or published later by Bain.
The photograph shows uniformed police officers and men in civilian coats lifting a draped coffin from a horse-drawn hearse on a cobbled street, with officers standing at attention on the sidewalk. The record does not give the street or the address, and none is given here.
The copy stored here is the Library’s service JPEG. The companion negative of the same day is Funeral cortege of Petrosino.
