Washington Navy Yard District of Columbia. Samuel Arnold a conspirator (seated) – Vintage Photo Print
(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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This historic photograph of Washington Navy Yard District of Columbia. Samuel Arnold a conspirator (seated) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington Navy Yard District of Columbia. Samuel Arnold a conspirator (seated)
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Samuel Arnold is shown seated at the Washington Navy Yard in this 1865 portrait, one of the men held there after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Arnold was among the conspirators who were tried by military commission that year, and he received a life sentence rather than execution. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, the standard process of the period, and the record credits the photographer David B. Woodbury, who made a series of portraits of the prisoners. Such pictures were part of the wider effort to document the trial's principal figures.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| 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: Samuel Arnold. One of Lincoln assassination conspirator. 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 | 4,083 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51462 |
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