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Assassination of President Lincoln - the murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the president's box – Historic Print

Assassination of President Lincoln - the murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the president's box, 1865 — antique engraving
Assassination of President Lincoln - the murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the president's box, 1865. Antique engraving from the Presidents 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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A window into the past: Assassination of President Lincoln - the murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the president's box, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The engraving's focus is the moment John Wilkes Booth, after shooting Lincoln at Ford's theater on April 14, 1865, dropped to the stage, with his spur caught in the flag draped before the presidential box. Booth reportedly broke his leg in the fall, a detail that became part of the manhunt that followed. The print appeared on the cover of *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in May 1865, when weekly illustrated papers were the main way many Americans saw images of news events. Because photographs of the assassination itself were not available, engravings like this one, drawn from eyewitness accounts, shaped how the public pictured the killing.

Created / published1865
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20 (1865 May 6), p. 98 (cover).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,077 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110817

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