A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and...

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American

Civil War

Oct. 13, 2012–Jan. 14, 2013

MaryLou and George Boone Gallery

John B. Bachelder (1825–1894)

Gettysburg Battle-Field. Battle Fought at Gettysburg, PA, July 1st, 2d & 3d, by the

Federal and Confederate Armies

c. 1863

Hand-colored lithograph

26 3/8 × 37 1/2 in. RB 194217

John B. Bachelder (1825–1894), after a painting by Alonzo Chappel (1828–1887)

The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln

c. 1868

Line and stipple engraving; artist’s proof

18 × 30 1/2 in. PR 678_64

2

George N. Barnard (1819–1902)

Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign … From Negatives Taken in the Field

(New York: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1866)

Bound volume

16 3/4 × 21 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. RB 44117

Plates from the above volume:


Battle Field of New Hope Church, Ga., No. 1

1866

Albumen print

11 × 14 1/2 in. RB 44117, Plate 23


Buen-Ventura, Savannah, Ga.

1866

Albumen print

10 × 14 1/4 in. RB 44117, Plate 46

3


Destruction of Hood’s Ordinance Train

1864

Albumen print

10 × 14 1/4 in. RB 44117, Plate 42


Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, Ga., No. 1

1864

Albumen print

10 × 14 1/4 in. RB 44117, Plate 37


Scene of Gen. McPherson’s Death

1866

Albumen print

10 × 14 1/4 in. RB 44117, Plate 33

4


Battlefield of Atlanta, No. 2

1864; printed 1877

Albumen print

11 × 14 1/2 in. photCL 305 (32)


The Potter House, Atlanta, Ga.

1864; printed 1877

Albumen print

11 × 14 1/2 in. photCL 305 (33)


Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, No. [5]

1864; printed 1877

Albumen print

11 × 14 1/2 in. photCL 305 (35)

5

Bendann Bros.

James Dearing (April 25, 1840–April 1865), Brig. Gen., C.S.A.

c. 1863

Albumen carte-de-visite print

4 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. photCL 511 (2)

Isaac H. Bonsall (1833–1909)

Battery Mitchell, Standing Outside Tents at Roll Call, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

c. 1863–64

Albumen print

5 1/8 × 8 5/8 in. photCL 491 (15)


Close Order Black Platoon Drill in Parade Plaza near Chattanooga, Tennessee

1864

Albumen print

10 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. photCL 491 (34)

6


Group of Union military and civilian men near Chattanooga, Tennessee

c. 1863–64

Albumen print

12 1/4 × 10 5/16 in. photCL 491 (42)


Military bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga

c. 1863–64

Albumen print

10 3/4 × 13 1/8 in. photCL 491 (45)

Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896)

Mary E. Surratt

c. 1850, printed later

Albumen print

4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. photPF 3222

7

Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896)

Soldiers’ Graves at Bull Run

1862

Albumen print

7 1/2 × 9 3/16 in. photCL 305

Broadbent & Co. (active 1858–63)

Corporals of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry

1861

Albumen print

8 1/4 × 6 in. photOV 10590

A. R. Butts, after a lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1865

The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14,

1865

c. 1865


2 1/2 × 4 in. photPF 25497

8

A. R. Butts, after a lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1865

Death of President Lincoln

c. 1865


2 1/2 × 4 in. photPF 25499

Currier & Ives (1834–1907)

The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th

1865

1865

Lithograph

10 × 14 in. Pr 675_36


Death of President Lincoln, at Washington, D.C., April 15th 1865: The Nation’s Martyr

1865

Hand-colored lithograph; first state

13 1/2 × 18 1/8 in. Pr 675_26

9


Death of President Lincoln, at Washington, D.C., April 15th 1865: The Nation’s Martyr

1865

Lithograph; second state

13 1/2 × 18 1/8 in. Pr 675_25


General Grant at the Tomb of Abraham Lincoln, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield,

Illinois

1868


8 × 12 1/2 in. Pr 675_42

J. D. Edwards (1831–1900)

Confederate soldiers drilling and at rest near Pensacola, Florida

1861

Page from James E. Taylor scrapbook

Albumen prints

14 1/2 × 12 in. photCL 300 v.2, p.2

10

Attributed to Egbert Guy Fowx (born c. 1821) for Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896)

Wheatfield in Which General Reynolds Was Shot, Gettysburg

[View of Mathew B. Brady at the Gettysburg battlefield]

July 1863; printed later

Albumen prints

6 × 8 3/8 in. photCL 307 (13, 15)

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882)

Adjusting the Ropes (top); The Suspended Bodies and the Shuddering Crowd

(bottom)

[Hanging of the Lincoln conspirators at the Old Arsenal, Washington, D.C., July 7,

1865]

July 7, 1865


Albumen prints

14 1/2 × 12 in. photCL 300 v. 1, p. 100

11


Burying the Dead on the Battle-Field of Antietam

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2648


Completely Silenced! Dead Confederate Artillery Men, As They Lay Around Their

Battery after the Battle of Antietam

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2653


Confederate Soldiers, As They Fell inside the Fence on the Hagerstown Road, at the

Battle of Antietam

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2655

12


Confederate Soldier, Who, after Being Wounded, Had Dragged Himself to a Little

Ravine on the Hill-Side, Where He Died

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2654


Gathered Together for Burial, after the Battle of Antietam

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2647


View on Battle-Field of Antietam

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2642

13


View on Battle-Field of Antietam

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2640


View on Battle-Field of Antietam. Confederate Dead near the Sherrick Farm.

September 1862

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. photPF 2641


President Lincoln, Maj. Allan Pinkerton, and Gen. McClernand at Antietam, October,

1862

1862; printed c. 1890

Albumen print

6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. photCL 445 (80)

14

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882); James F. Gibson (b. 1828)

Dead Confederate and Union soldiers after the Battle of Antietam

September 19–21, 1862


Albumen prints

14 1/2 × 12 in. photCL 300 v. 1, p. 58


Col. L. C. Baker Planning the Capture of Booth

c. 1865

Albumen print

121/2 × 9 3/8 in. photOV 10639

[No Image Available]


The Graves

[Coffins of the Lincoln conspirators at the Old Arsenal, Washington, D.C., July 7,

1865]

July 7, 1865

Albumen prints

6 7/8 × 9 in. photOV 10426

15


Hanging of Capt. Henry Wirz (C.S.A.). Adjusting the Ropes.

November 10, 1865

Albumen print

7 × 9 1/2 in. photOV 10420


Hanging of Capt. Henry Wirz. The Drop.

November 10, 1865

Albumen print

61/2 × 81/2 in. photCL 445 (87)


Hanging of Capt. Henry Wirz (C.S.A.). Reading the Death Warrant.

November 10, 1865

Albumen print

7 × 9 in. photOV 10421

16


Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, 2 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Philp &

Solomons, 1866).

Bound volumes

12 3/4 × 17 1/4 × 1 5/8 in. RB 352125

From the above volume:


Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg

July 1863; printed 1866

Albumen print

12 3/4 × 17 1/4 × 1 5/8 in. RB 352125 v. 1, Plate 41

John Reekie, photographer; printed by Alexander Gardner (1821–1882)

A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia

April 1865; printed 1866

Albumen print

12 3/4 × 17 1/4 × 1 5/8 in. RB 352125 v.2, Plate 94

17


Howard’s Livery Stable, Where Booth Hired the Horse on Which He Escaped

1865

Albumen print

6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. photCL 511 (13)


Last Picture of Abraham Lincoln

February 5, 1865; printed later

Gelatin silver print

10 × 8 in. photOV 10681


Lewis Payne, One of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators

[Lewis Powell (a.k.a. Payne), a Lincoln conspirator, under arrest aboard the U.S.S.

Montauk]

April 27, 1865; printed c. 1890

Albumen prints

8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.; photCL 445 (91, 92); photCL 300, v.1, p. 95

18


Religious Service (top); Reading the Death Warrant (bottom)

[Hanging of the Lincoln conspirators at the Old Arsenal, Washington, D.C., July 7,

1865]

July 7, 1865


Albumen prints

14 1/2 × 12 in. photCL 300 v. 1, p. 99


Payne, Alias Wood, Alias Hall, Arrested as an Associate of Booth in the Conspiracy

[Lewis Powell (a.k.a. Payne), a Lincoln conspirator, under arrest aboard the U.S.S.

Montauk]

April 27, 1865

Albumen carte-de-visite prints

4 × 2 1/2 in. photCL 511 (5, 6)

19


Conspirator David E. Herold in Custody on the Monitor U.S.S. Montauk


Albumen print

6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. photCL 445 (88)


Conspirator George Atzerodt in Custody on the Monitor U.S.S. Saugus


Albumen print

6 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. photCL 445 (89)


Edward Spangler, a Suspect, in Custody on the Monitor U.S.S. Saugus


Albumen print

6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. photCL 445 (90)

20


Suspect Joao M. Celestino in Custody on the Monitor U.S.S. Montauk


Albumen print

6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. photCL 445 (95)


Conspirator Michael O’Laughlin in Custody on the Monitor U.S.S. Saugus


Albumen print

8 1/2 in. × 6 1/2 photCL 445 (93)

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882); Timothy H. O’Sullivan (c. 1840–1882)

Bodies of Confederate soldiers awaiting burial soon after the Battle of Gettysburg

July 5, 1863


Albumen prints

14 1/2 × 12 in photCL 300 v.1, p. 72

21

John G. Gilman

Bed Scene

From Gilman’s Series of Grant Views Taken at Mt. McGregor, New York

c. 1885

Albumen print

5 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. photPF 4023

John G. Gilman

Sick Room

From Gilman’s Series of Grant Views Taken at Mt. McGregor, New York

c. 1885

Albumen print

5 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. photPF 4024

Ridgway Glover (1831–1866)

Abraham Lincoln Hearse and Coffin in Philadelphia

1865

Albumen stereograph

3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. photST Glover 1

22


Depot, Springfield, Illinois

1865

Albumen stereograph



Funeral of Abraham Lincoln at the Vault

1865

Albumen stereograph



Home of Lincoln [Springfield, Illinois]

1865

Albumen stereograph



Lincoln Hearse in Indianapolis

1865

23

Albumen stereograph



Lincoln’s Catafalque in the State House [Springfield, Illinois]

1865

Albumen stereograph



Passing out of the State House after Seeing the Corpse [Springfield, Illinois]

1865

Albumen stereograph



State House [Springfield, Illinois], Side View

1865

Albumen stereograph


24


Vault with Directors and Guards [Springfield, Illinois]

1865

Albumen stereograph



View on Washington Street, Springfield, Illinois

1865

Albumen stereograph


Ridgway Glover (1831–1866) and Schreiber & Sons (active 1860s–90s)

9th Union League Regiment Waiting for the Body of the President, Philadelphia

1865

Albumen stereograph



Burial of Lincoln, Side View [Springfield, Illinois]

1865

25

Albumen stereograph



Crowd at Sixth and Chestnut, Philadelphia

1865

Albumen stereograph



Crowd Passing into the State House to View the Body of Lincoln, Philadelphia

1865

Albumen stereograph



Dispersing the Crowd at Sixth and Chestnut, Philadelphia

[Funeral procession for President Lincoln, Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia,

Pa.]

1865

Albumen stereograph

3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.; photST Glover 4

26


Lincoln Funeral Passing up Broad Street, Philadelphia

1865

Albumen stereograph



Vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery [Springfield, Illinois]

1865

Albumen stereograph


H. Polkinhorn & Son, printers

Playbill for “Our American Cousin,” starring Miss Laura Keene, the night of Lincoln’s

assassination

1865

Broadside

19 × 6 in. RB 119790

27

Francis Hacker, after a lithograph by an unidentified artist

The death of John Wilkes Booth and capture of David Herold in a Virginia barn

c. 1865


2 1/2 × 4 in. photCL 511 (4)

Harper’s Weekly, July 22, 1865

Execution of the Conspirators at Washington, July 7, 1865

[Engravings after photographs by Alexander Gardner and others]

Bound volume

16 1/2 × 11 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. 499752 v. 09, pp. 456–7

Harper’s Weekly, October 18, 1862

Scenes on the Battlefield of Antietam from Photographs by Mr. M. B. Brady

[Engravings after photographs by Alexander Gardner and James F. Gibson]

Bound volume

16 1/2 × 11 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. 499752 v. 06, pp. 664–5

28

Lee Gallery (active 1870s)

Col. John S. Mosby and Some of His Men

c. 1863–65; printed later


4 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. photCL 511 (1)

John L. Magee (active 1844–67), publisher

Death Bed of Abraham Lincoln. Died April 15th 1865.

c. 1865

Lithograph

10 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. Pr 675_23

John L. Magee (active 1844–67), publisher

The Murderer’s Doom. Miserable Death of J. Wilkes Booth, the Assassin of President

Lincoln.

c. 1865

Lithograph

10 1/8 × 13 in. Pr 675_44

29

Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840–1882), photographer; printed by Alexander Gardner

(1821–1882)

Battle-Field of Gettysburg. View on the Field after Fight of First Day.

July 4, 1863; printed later

Albumen print

7 × 9 in. photCL 307 (51)

Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840–1882)

Confederate Dead on the Battlefield

May 1864; printed c. 1891

Albumen stereograph

4 × 7 in. photST War 723

Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840–1882)

On the Battlefield at Gettysburg

July 1863; printed c. 1891

Albumen stereograph

4 × 7 in. photST War 243

30

Philadelphia Photographic Company, after a painting by Stephen James Ferris (1835–

1915)

Washington & Lincoln (Apotheosis)

c. 1865


4 × 2 3/8 in. photPF 25496

J. A. Pugh (1833–1887)

Gen. C. D. Anderson, C.S.A.

c. 1863


4 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. photPF 2925

Andrew Jackson Riddle

Henry Wirz and photographs of Andersonville Prison

1864


Albumen prints

31

14 1/2 × 12 in. photCL 300 v.1, p. 104

T. C. Roche and others

Dead soldiers (Confederate and Union), some at Petersburg, Virginia

April 1865


Albumen prints

14 1/2 × 12 in. photCL 300 v.1, p. 85

T. C. Roche, photographer

A Rebel Soldier, Killed at the Trenches before Petersburg

1865; printed c. 1891

Albumen stereograph

3 1/2 × 7 in. photST Anthony 3191

James B. Rogers, printer

[Satirical mourning card]

c. 1865

Lithograph

32

7 × 8 3/4 in. uncat_JLC_CW_204

Andrew J. Russell (1829–1902)

Behind Stone Wall, Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia

May 3, 1863

Albumen print

9 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. photCL 301 (59)


Camp Convalescence, Alexandria, Virginia

January 1864

Albumen print

9 1/2 × 12 3/4 in. photCL 301 (86)


Deserters To Be Shot

1863

Albumen print

6 × 8 in.; photCL 301 (16)

33


Scene after the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia

May 3, 1863

Albumen print

9 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. photCL 301 (60)


Soldiers’ Burying Ground, Alexandria, Virginia

May 1863

Albumen print

9 5/8 × 12 3/4 in. photCL 301 (52)

J. F. Ryder (1826–1904)

Catafalque. Remains of President Lincoln Lying in State, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28th

1865.

1865

Albumen print

8 × 11 1/4 in. RB 39601

34

Salisbury Bros. & Co.

Dr. Bicknell’s Syrup

c. 1865

Advertisement cards

4 × 2 1/2 in. photCL 511 (10, 8, 9)

Thomas & Eno (active 1862–67), printers

The Soldier’s Grave

c. 1862


18 3/8 × 24 3/4 in. priJLC 000803

William H. Tipton (1850–1929)

Prominent Confederate and Union veterans and others on East Cemetery Hill,

Gettysburg, commemorating the birthday of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

April 29, 1893

Albumen print

9 × 15 in. photCL 308 (23)

35

William H. Tipton (1850–1929)

Regimental monuments at Gettysburg

c. 1885–87

42 albumen prints

12 × 7 in. photCL 445

(Above, photCL 445 (350): Monument Honoring the 13th New Jersey Infantry)

U. S. Instantaneous Photographic Co.

Seven Mile Funeral Cortege of Genl. Grant in New York, Aug. 8, 1885 (Boston: U.S.

Instantaneous Photographic Co., 1886)

1886

Bound volume

18 1/2 × 15 × 2 in. RB 421255

Plates from the above volume:


Left: Another View on Fifth Avenue. Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth Streets,

in front of Madison Square.

Right: The Solemn March Continued Up Fifth Avenue

36

1885; printed 1886

Albumen prints

15 × 18 1/2 × 2 in. RB 421255, Plates 60 and 61


Another View of the Strange Effect Produced by the Electric Light while the

Remains Lay in State, August 8, 1885

[President Ulysses S. Grant’s remains lying in state, City Hall, New York City]

1885; printed 1886

Albumen print

9 1/4 × 11 5/8 in. RB 421255, Plate 31


Interior View of Ulysses S. Grant’s Tomb, Riverside Park, New York, May 31,

1886

1886

Albumen print

9 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. RB 421255, Plate 77

37


Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States and Ulysses S. Grant as

General of the United States Army

1885; printed 1886

Albumen prints

11 × 14 1/2 in. RB 421255, Plate 8

Unidentified photographer

7th Indiana Infantry monument, Culp’s Hill, Gettysburg

c. 1885

Albumen print

6 × 8 in. photCL 304 (41)


91st Pennsylvania Infantry regimental monument, Little Round Top, Gettysburg

c. 1883

Albumen print

6 × 8 in. photCL 304 (21)

38



147th Pennsylvania Infantry monument, commemorating night of July 1, 1863

c. 1885

Albumen print

6 × 8 1/4 in. photCL 304 (33)

Unidentified photographers

Left: Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad

Right: A. Lincoln, The Martyr President

c. 1865

From an album of carte-de-visite photographs related to Abraham Lincoln.

Leather album with brass hinges

Album, 6 × 5 × 2 in.; photographs, 3 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. photCL 40 (8, 9)

Unidentified artist

The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, on the Night

of Friday, April 14, 1865

c. 1865

Lithograph

9 3/4 × 13 1/4 in. ; Pr 675_37

39


Barracks at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia

c. 1863–64

Albumen print

10 × 12 7/8 in. photCL 306 (50)


U.S. Colored Troops, Camp William Penn, Philadelphia

c. 1863

Albumen print

10 × 12 7/8 in. photCL 306 (51)

Unidentified photographer, after an engraving by C. A. Asp

Death Bed of Lincoln

c. 1865


2 1/2 × 4 in. photPF 25498

40


Grading Road-Bed, Section 1, Confederate Ave., Gettysburg

c. 1893

From Photographs Illustrating the Work of the Gettysburg National Park

Commission, 1893–1898, vol. 1.

Albumen print

41/2 × 7 in. photCL 302 v.1 (09)


Paving on Section 4, Gettysburg

c. 1893


Commission, 1893–1898, vol. 1.

Albumen print

41/4 × 7 1/4 in. photCL 302 v.1 (01)

41


Group of men in woods at Gettysburg

c. 1883

Albumen print

7 × 9 in. photCL 305 (06)


John Wilkes Booth

c. 1865


3 3/8 × 2 1/8 in. photCL 511 (3)



Key that Locked the Cells of the Conspirators of Mr. Lincoln. 1/4 Size of Key.

c. 1865

Albumen print

In Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842–1930), The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Flight,

Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment of the Conspirators (Washington, D.C.: O. H.

Oldroyd, 1901)

5 ¼ x 3 5/8 in. RB 39601

42


Lincoln Catafalque [on] Main Street, Buffalo, New York

1865

Albumen stereograph

3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. photPF 04097


Maj. Allcock (standing at right), Mrs. Filley, Lieut. Filley, Co. E., and their daughter at

an unidentified battlefront

c. 1863

Albumen print

81/4 × 6 1/8 in. photOV 10350


Group portrait of Maj. H. T. Lee and other Union soldiers relaxing at an unidentified

location

c. 1863

Albumen print

71/2 × 81/2 in. photOV 10344

43


Monuments to the 19th and 15th Massachusetts Infantries on Hancock Avenue near

the Copse of Trees, Gettysburg

c. 1883

Albumen print

6 × 8 in. photCL 304 (37)


Portrait of Capt. John B. Colton

c. 1863

Sixth-plate ambrotype in thermoplastic case

2 3/4 × 2 in. photDAG 11


Portrait of Helen (Mrs. Israel) Daniels Stone

c. 1862

Ninth-plate tintype in wood screw-top case

1 1/2 in. diameter Frederick Nelson Scrapbook v. 44, p. 166

44


Portrait of Mrs. Frederick (Marie) Ockershauser

c. 1864

Sixth-plate tintype with beaded case

2 1/2 × 2 in. HM 74564


Studio portrait of John Edward Cutter in uniform. Taken at Chain Bridge, Virginia.

May 1862

Quarter-plate tintype

4 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. mssCutter


Veterans posing with John B. Bachelder at the 29th Ohio Infantry monument,

Gettysburg

c. 1887

Albumen print

7 3/4 × 91/4 in. photCL 305 (07)

45


View of Capt. Coxe’s (the 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery) Battery, Port Hudson, Louisiana

1863

Albumen print

9 × 11 in. photOV 10101


View of funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln down Pennsylvania Avenue,

Washington, D.C.

1865

Albumen print

3 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. photPF 7248


Visitor to the grave of Stonewall Jackson in Lexington, Virginia

c. 1866


21/4 × 33/4 in. photPF 1569

46

Unidentified photographer, after a painting by Stephen James Ferris (1835–1915)

Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis)

c. 1865

Albumen print

8 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. photCL 511 (14)


Young drummer boy with his mother

1863

Quarter–plate daguerreotype in leather case

3 × 2 1/2 in. photDAG 63


Unidentified photographers

Left: Howard Avenue East from Mummasburg Road Ready for Paving

Right: Gen. John F. Reynolds Statue from the Southeast


Commission, 1898–1901, vol. 4

1898–1901

Albumen prints in bound album

9 3/16 × 13 5/8 × 2 3/8 in. photCL 302 v.4

47

United States War Department; photographs by Alexander Gardner (1821–1882)

$100,000 Reward! The Murderer of Our Late Beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, Is

Still at Large

April 20, 1865

Broadside with albumen carte-de-visite prints

23 × 12 in. RB 132715

Various photographers

Officers and one soldier of the 22nd United States Colored Infantry

c. 1864

35 Albumen carte-de-visite prints

3 × 2 in. mssGraybill (Levi)

(Above, photo HM_77705: Unidentified African American soldier of the 22nd United States Colored Infantry.)

P. S. Weaver

Group on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg

c. 1883

Albumen print

7 × 9 in. photCL 305 (22)

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Objects:

Mourning ribbon commemorating the death of Abraham Lincoln

1865

Gem tintype on black silk ribbon

Photograph by Anthony Berger for Mathew B. Brady Studio

4 × 3 in. RB 441054

Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati R.R.

Special Time Schedule for the Train Conveying the Remains of Abraham Lincoln,

April 29, 1865

1865

Silk

11 × 6 3/4 in. RB 441054_silk train schedule

Death warrant pass issued to Ward Hill Lamon

April 11, 1865

Card in silver case

2 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. LN 2371

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Lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, 1865

Strands of hair affixed to business card

2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. Uncat eph Judd Steward

Reception of the Remains of President Lincoln, at Chicago, May 1, 1865: Order of

Procession

c. 1865

Black silk with cloth fringe

13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. RB 441054_silk_mourning_keepsake

Wm. Jackson & Co., Sheaf Island Works, Sheffield

Rio Grande Camp Knife (Bowie Knife) used by Lewis Powell in assassination attempt

on William Seward, April 14, 1865

Steel blade, bone handle, and leather sheath

12 1/2 in. (8 1/8 in. blade) George Foster Robinson Papers

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