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- GLC#
- GLC05111.02.0115-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1865 ca.
- Title
- The Assassin's Vision
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 carte de visite Height: 6.3 cm, Width: 8.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
The images shows John Wilkes Booth riding on a black horse through a group of trees with the capitol building visible in the background. A ghostly image of Abraham Lincoln appears between two trees on the left side of the photograph. The trees surrounding Lincoln's ghost are peppered with tiny ghostly Lincoln heads. A sign posted on a tree on the right of the photograph points to St. Marys, MD. Pasted on the verso is an advertisement for a cholera remedy. Graphite inscription on verso "80318 B.F. Dec. 31, 1928."
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