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Lewis Payne, In Sweater, Seated And Manacled, Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Alexander Gardner, photographer – Historic Photograph Print

Lewis Payne, In Sweater, Seated And Manacled, Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Alexander Gardner, photographer, April, 1865 — historic photograph
Lewis Payne, In Sweater, Seated And Manacled, Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Alexander Gardner, photographer, April, 1865. Historic photograph from the Lincoln collection.

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A window into the past: Lewis Payne, In Sweater, Seated And Manacled, Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Alexander Gardner, photographer, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Lewis Payne, In Sweater, Seated And Manacled, Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Alexander Gardner, photographer

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Lewis Payne, who attacked Secretary of State William Seward on the night of President Lincoln's assassination, sits in a knit sweater with his wrists chained in this portrait by Alexander Gardner. The wet collodion glass negative dates to April 1865, when Payne was held at the Washington Navy Yard while awaiting trial. The dark metal background may suggest the iron-clad monitors Montauk and Saugus, where some of the conspirators were confined, though the record only presumes this. Gardner's studio made many such images of the accused, which were widely circulated and helped shape public views of the case.

Created / publishedApril, 1865
Mediumnegative, glass, wet collodion
NotesSUMMARY: This photograph has background of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, where the conspirators were for a time confined
Original scan3,636 × 4,264 px · prints to 12 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceL-D-17

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