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Washington, D.C., President Lincoln's Box At Ford's Theater – Antique Wall Art

Washington, D.C., President Lincoln's Box At Ford's Theater, April, 1865 — historic photograph
Washington, D.C., President Lincoln's Box At Ford's Theater, April, 1865. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(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, D.C., President Lincoln's Box At Ford's Theater brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Washington, D.C., President Lincoln's Box At Ford's Theater

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This view shows the presidential box at Ford's theater in Washington, the place where Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, just days after Lee's surrender had ended the main fighting of the Civil War. The image is a glass negative made by the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed while still wet, so photographers working on location often carried portable darkrooms. Because the picture dates to the same month as the assassination, it has become a rare record of a building that many viewers associate with that event.

Created / publishedApril, 1865
Mediumnegative, glass, wet collodion
Original scan4,649 × 4,899 px · prints to 15 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-D-14

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