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TITLE:  [John Wilkes Booth, half-length portrait, facing left and holding a cane]

CALL NUMBER:  LOT 4195 [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-13706 (digital file from original photo)
LC-USZ62-9712 (b&w film copy neg.)

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : albumen.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1860 and 1865]

NOTES:

No. "4564" and "Wilkes Booth" penned on mount below the photo.

Possibly an enlarged copy made in the later 1800s of a carte de visite photograph.

This portrait also appears on the wanted poster "$100,000 Reward! The Murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham, Lincoln ..."

Civil War Photograph Collection.

SUBJECTS:

Booth, John Wilkes,--1838-1865.

FORMAT:

Portrait photographs 1860-1865.
Albumen prints 1860-1865.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original photo) ppmsca 13706 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.13706
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a12160 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a12160

CONTROL #:  2007675763


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