Almond Fisk displays coffin in Capitol Rotunda March 1849

Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in , | Posted on September 04, 2020

 The US Capitol building looked like this in the years MM White is running his unde3rtaking business from Pennsylvania Ave.

The higher dome is under constructions and this is the canal when the Mall now is - right behind where his shop would have been.


MM White is still a watchman at the patent office and his best friend John L. Wirt is a capitol police man and I think that's how they connected with Mr Fisk to sell his coffins in DC.