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| Genre/Form: | Photograph albums Photographic prints Cartes-de-visite Card photograph albums Portraits Pictorial works |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Samuel Arnold; George A Atzerodt; John Wilkes Booth; Boston Corbett; David E Herold; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Michael O'Laughlin; Lewis Payne; Edward Spangler |
| Material Type: | Graphic, Photograph |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| OCLC Number: | 702555179 |
| Notes: | Bookplate: "Stuart W. Jackson's Lincoln Collection". Manuscript index, and some manuscript captions on album mounts. Many of the card mounts also bear printed captions dated 1865. One manuscript caption misidentifies O'Laughlin as "Powell". |
| Description: | 1 album (14 photographic prints in 1 box): b & w ; 12.3 x 9 cm. |
Abstract:
Album of carte-de-visite photographs of people connected with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. It includes portraits of Lincoln; his assassin John Wilkes Booth; Booth's co-conspirators David Herold, Samuel Arnold, George Atzerodt, Michael O'Laughlin, Lewis Thornton Powell (a.k.a. Lewis Payne), and Edward Spangler; and Union army sergeant Boston Corbett, who killed Booth on April 26, 1865. Several of the portraits are copies of heavily retouched photographs.
The album also contains five images of the execution by hanging of Herold, Atzerodt, Payne, and Mary Surrat, another conspirator, on July 7, 1865.
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Related Subjects:(15)
- Arnold, Samuel, -- 1834-1906 -- Portraits.
- Atzerodt, George A., -- 1835-1865 -- Portraits.
- Booth, John Wilkes, -- 1838-1865 -- Portraits.
- Corbett, Boston, -- b. 1832 -- Portraits.
- Herold, David E., -- 1844-1865 -- Portraits.
- Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination.
- Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Portraits.
- O'Laughlin, Michael, -- d. 1867 -- Portraits.
- Payne, Lewis, -- 1845-1865 -- Portraits.
- Spangler, Edward -- Portraits.
- Hanging -- Pictorial works.
- Executions and executioners -- Pictorial works.
- Assassins -- Pictorial works.
- Portraits -- United States.
- Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
