General Grant National Memorial, best known as "Grant's Tomb."
Collection: National Park Service
- General Grant National Memorial, best known as "Grant's Tomb." Collection: National Park Service
- Temporary vault where Grant lay for twelve years under guard, from 1885 to 1897, while his great mausoleum was being built. Collection: Eric K. Washington
- Richard T. Greener, Grant's former friend, spearheaded the campaign to build the monument. Greener, was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University in 1870, later became a U.S. emissary to Vladivostok, Russia, from 1898 to 1905. Collection: National Park Service
- Two African-American men seen at the cornerstone-laying ceremony of Grant's Tomb on April 27, 1892. The city's black community was particularly enthusiastic in giving economic support to the erection of the monument. Collection: Eric K. Washington
- A stereopticon image of the dedication ceremony of the completed monument on April 27, 1897. Collection: Eric K. Washington
- Photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, believed to have been taken between 1870 and 1880, either by Matthew Brady or Levin C. Handy. Public domain image.
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