Washington, D.C., Adjusting The Ropes For Hanging The Conspirators – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington, D.C., Adjusting The Ropes For Hanging The Conspirators. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington, D.C., Adjusting The Ropes For Hanging The Conspirators
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Workmen adjust the ropes on the gallows in the yard of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington, where four people were hanged that day for their roles in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. The executions followed a military commission's convictions and included Mary Surratt, the first woman put to death by the federal government. The glass negative was made by the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed within minutes, so the photographer had to work on site. The view is commonly credited to Alexander Gardner's studio, which sold prints of the scene to a public eager for images of the case.
| Created / published | July 7, 1865 |
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| Medium | negative, glass, wet collodion |
| Original scan | 4,568 × 3,622 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-D-20 |
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