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The Body of President Harding Leaves for the Cemetery, Side B

This is the reverse view of image number 1112017. The text reads: "BODY OF PRESIDENT HARDING LEAVING FATHERS HOME, MARION, OHIO, ON WAY TO CEMETERY A one-time country editor came back yesterday to sleep for a night again under his fathers roof in Marion and with him came the grief of the nation, of the worldthat he was dead. Warren Harding was back again among the neighborly folk of his home town. The brief day of his greatness was but a memory treasured by the Nation. His life work was done. The home folk came eagerly with tears streaming down their cheeks to look their last on his dead face, peaceful with the calm of eternity. It was easy to believe that the genial soul that has fled might even burst the bonds of death and move the still lips to happy greetings of these thronging old friends in the modest parlor of his fathers house. To him they were always 'Jack' and 'Tom,' while he had been 'W. G.' and 'The Boss' in the glad, wholesome, simple days before a people claimed him for the highest service to them and to the flag. But it was Harding the man, not the President, who came home yesterday and it is Harding the man who will be laid to sleep to-day within a stones throw from the plot where his mother lies. To-day the city is thronged with thousands, high and low in degree, who have come together, stricken with sadness, to express their reverence and love for their departed leader. Copyright by The Keystone View Company"
Photographer
Keystone View Company
Date of Work
June - August 1923
Type
Photograph
Credit
White House Historical Association