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The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865 – Historic Reproduction

The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865, New York : Currier & Ives, 1865. — antique lithograph
The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865, New York : Currier & Ives, 1865.. Antique lithograph from the Washington DC 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: The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Ford's theater on Tenth Street in Washington is the setting here, on the night of April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln during a performance. The New York firm Currier & Ives, which sold inexpensive lithographs of current events to a broad public, issued this print in 1865, within months of the killing. Lincoln died the next morning, and prints like this one helped Americans grieve and try to make sense of the assassination. The firm's catalog raisonné lists it, which makes it a useful record of how the event was presented to the public.

Created / publishedNew York : Currier & Ives, 1865.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0314. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Lincoln, Abraham.
SubjectsLincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Assassination--Washington (D.C.). Booth, John Wilkes,--1838-1865. Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)--1860-1870. Assassinations--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,078 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174076

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