Carte de visite photo of John Wilkes Booth
Carte de visite photo of John Wilkes Booth

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Carte de visite photo of John Wilkes Booth

Unknown photographer

Regular price $300.00 Sale

The man who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The actor was a Confederate sympathizer who lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery. Cornered in a Maryland barn, he maintained a standoff until the barn was set ablaze and a Union soldier shot him in the neck. The photo may have belonged to a theatre-attending "fan" of the handsome actor or to another Southern sympathizer.

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  • Date Published: nd
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  • Condition: Fine
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
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  • Details:
    One 9.5 cm b&w photo on card. Rear states "J. Wilkes Booth, Murderer of Abraham Lincoln."

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