Michael O'Laughlin, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., A Conspirator, Manacled – Antique Print
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Michael O'Laughlin, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., A Conspirator, Manacled
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Michael O'Laughlin is shown here in manacles at the Washington Navy Yard, one of the men held for complicity in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. Alexander Gardner made the glass-plate negative in April 1865, when the conspirators were being held under heavy guard while awaiting trial. The dark metal behind him suggests the iron hulls of the monitors *Montauk* and *Saugus*, where several of the prisoners were kept for a time. O'Laughlin, a former Confederate soldier and friend of John Wilkes Booth, was convicted by a military commission and sentenced to hard labor for life. He died in 1867 at Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas.
| Created / published | April, 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | negative, glass, wet collodion |
| Notes | Alexander Gardner, photographer. SUMMARY: 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 scan | 3,592 × 4,152 px · prints to 12 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-D-16 |
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