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[John Wilkes Booth, half-length portrait, facing left and holding a cane] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[John Wilkes Booth, half-length portrait, facing left and holding a cane], [between 1860 and 1865] — historic photograph
[John Wilkes Booth, half-length portrait, facing left and holding a cane], [between 1860 and 1865]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Booth appears here at half length, turned to the left and holding a cane, a pose common in the small carte de visite portraits of the early 1860s. The number 4564 and the name "Wilkes Booth" are penned on the mount below the image, and the record suggests this may be an enlarged copy made in the later 1800s from one of those smaller cards. Booth, a well-known stage actor, shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's theater in April 1865, and this likeness was soon reproduced on wanted posters during the manhunt that followed. Booth was killed in Virginia later that same month.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAbraham
NotesNo. 4564" and "Wilkes Booth" penned on mount below the photo. Possibly an enlarged copy made in the later 1800s of a carte de visite photograph. This portrait also appears on the wanted poster "$100
SubjectsBooth, John Wilkes,--1838-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,030 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111448

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