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Washington D.C. Gen. John F. Hartranft and staff responsible for securing the consp, 1865 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. Gen. John F. Hartranft and staff responsible for securing the consp, 1865. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Gen. John F. Hartranft and his staff pose here as the officers responsible for securing the men accused of conspiring in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Hartranft, a Pennsylvania volunteer officer, oversaw the prisoners at the Washington Arsenal, where they were held under guard while a military commission tried them in the summer of 1865. The picture was made by Washington photographer David B. Woodbury on a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required sitters to hold still through a long exposure.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0832 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Hartranft John F. Watts R. A. Frederick George W. McCall William H. H. Geissinger D. H. Dodd L. A. Rath Christian. Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865.--Assassination. Armories.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,698 × 1,348 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46116

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