Showing posts with label assassination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assassination. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2015

Sunday, April 12, 2015

View of People Posing in Front of Abraham Lincoln's House Draped in Mourning Sometime After Lincoln's Assassination in Springfield, Illinois (1865)


View of people posing in front of Abraham Lincoln's house draped in mourning sometime after Lincoln's assassination in Springfield, Illinois, 1865. The horse is probably one owned by Lincoln named Old Robin.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Carte De Visite Portrait of John Wilkes Booth With His Right Hand on a Book


Cropped tintype version which has a sharper look.

Carte de visite portrait of John Wilkes Booth with his right hand on a book. By George Godfrey of Rochester according to tintype version auction entry.

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Original and Altered Carte De Visite Portraits of John Wilkes Booth



An original and an altered carte de visite portraits of John Wilkes Booth. The first was taken by Charles Deforest Fredricks in New York City around 1863. The second is an altered version in which Booth is made to look like he is being whispered to by the devil in Ford’s Theater while holding a pistol and knife. This was probably made shortly after Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln probably in 1865 and was published by Macoy & Herwig.

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