Washington Navy Yard D.C. George A. Atzerodt a conspirator – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Washington Navy Yard D.C. George A. Atzerodt a conspirator comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Washington Navy Yard D.C. George A. Atzerodt a conspirator
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Taken at the Washington Navy Yard in 1865, this glass negative shows George A. Atzerodt, one of the men accused in the plot against Abraham Lincoln. Atzerodt had been assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson on the night Lincoln was shot, but he abandoned the attempt and fled. After his arrest, he was held at the Navy Yard with the other accused conspirators while a military commission weighed their case. The wet collodion process required subjects to hold still through a long exposure, and portraits like this one circulated widely as the public followed the trial.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from Swanson J. Lincolns assassins 2001. Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0826 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Atzerodt George A. Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865.--Assassination.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,114 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46204 |
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