Washington District of Columbia. Chair occupied by Lincoln when assassinated – Vintage Photo Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Washington District of Columbia. Chair occupied by Lincoln when assassinated in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington District of Columbia. Chair occupied by Lincoln when assassinated
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The chair Abraham Lincoln occupied at Ford's theater on the night he was shot in April 1865 is the subject here, preserved as a stereograph pair. Its two glass negatives, made by the wet collodion process common in the period, were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The publisher, E. & H.T. Anthony, was a leading New York firm in the stereograph trade, and the word "copyright" scratched into the emulsion shows how seriously such views were protected.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: The chair that President Lincoln occupied at the time of his assassination at Fords Theatre. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,843 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52802 |
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