Patrick Kennedy's Funeral

Title

Patrick Kennedy's Funeral

Description

This is the funeral photograph of Patrick Kennedy, Sue Eickhoff's great-grandfather. An emigrant form Ireland, Patrick Kennedy homesteaded in the town of Coleridge in Cedar County, NE. Funeral photographs used to be much more common then they are now, made to preserve the likeness of the deceased, and to keep the memory of the dead children. The family sent funeral photos to those who could not attend, and in many cases in the second half of the 19th century, these photos were the only likeness of the person surviving in the family archives.

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Source

Sue and Charlie Eickhoff, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Format

still image

Type

image

Original Format

photograph

Files

nebc_eickhoff_sue_eickhoff_charlie_0001.jpg

Citation

“Patrick Kennedy's Funeral,” History Harvest, accessed March 28, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/243.

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