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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, D.C., April 14, 1865
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Additional Formats
Lithograph. Assassination is depicted with creative license: no flag butting in which Booth caught his spur and Lincoln reportedly slumped forward and did not stand after being shot.
Pr. Box 675/37
Visual Materials
Image of President Abraham Lincoln being shot by Booth.
photPF 25497
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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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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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First Lincoln death bed print by Currier & Ives, copyrighted on April 26, 1865. Depicts "little Tad" Lincoln weeping at his mother's knee beside the President's bedside. Tad was never present at the deathbed. This first print shows Gen. Henry W. Halleck (with handkerchief) at the bedside in contrast to the later version in which he is replaced by Vice President Andrew Johnson. See also pri675 (25).
Pr. Box 675/26
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Hand-colored lithograph. Depicts General Grant standing on the pathway outside of Lincoln's tomb.
Pr. Box 675/42