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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The Assassination of President Lincoln / At Ford's Theatre, Washington, on the night of Friday, April 14, 1865
Additional Formats
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Additional Formats
Lithograph. L to R: Maj. Rathbone, Miss Harris, Mrs. Lincoln, President, John Wilkes Booth. The first of the assassination prints to appear -- 11 days after the event. One of the most popular of all the Currier and Ives lithographs judging by number of copies that survive.
Pr. Box 675/36
Visual Materials
Image of President Abraham Lincoln being shot by Booth.
photPF 25497
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Lithograph. Further text: Shot through the head by Sergeant Boston Corbett in a barn of Garret's Farm, near Port Royal, near the Rappahannock, April 25, 1865. Shows the surrender of David Herold and the death of Booth in Richard Garrett's barn in Virginia.
Pr. Box 675/44
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Variant of the first death bed print published by Currier & Ives. Depicts "little Tad" Lincoln weeping at his mother's knee beside the President's bedside. Tad was never present at the deathbed. This revised version includes Vice President Andrew Johnson at the bedside in place of Gen. Henry W. Halleck. See also pri675 (26)
Pr. Box 675/25
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