Washington Navy Yard District of Columbia. Lewis Payne the conspirator who attacked – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Washington Navy Yard District of Columbia. Lewis Payne the conspirator who attacked
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Lewis Payne, one of the conspirators in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, is the subject of this 1865 wet collodion glass negative, made at the Washington Navy Yard in the District of Columbia. The caption on the negative sleeve identifies him as the man who attacked Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night of Lincoln's assassination. The photograph was taken by David B. Woodbury, a Washington photographer who died in 1866. Payne's portrait was made while he was held at the Navy Yard, where he and other conspirators were kept in the weeks before their military trial that summer.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from Swanson J. Lincolns assassins 2001. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Lewis Payne One of Lincolns assassination conspirators the one who attacked Mr. Seward. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,052 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51454 |
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