Mourners Paying Respects to President Harding, Side A

This stereograph by Keystone View Company shows citizens climbing U.S. Capitol steps to pay their respects to President Warren G. Harding on August 8, 1923, whose casket was lying in state in the Rotunda. While in San Francisco toward the end of his "Voyage of Understanding," Harding suddenly died on August 2, 1923, most likely from a heart attack. The caption reads: "Entering the Capitol to Pay Their Last Respects to President Harding, Washington, D. C."