The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865

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  The Assassination of President Lincoln / At Ford's Theatre, Washington, on the night of Friday, April 14, 1865

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  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.

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  The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865

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  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.

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  A. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States. Assassinated April 14th 1865

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  Image of a half-length portrait of United States president Abraham Lincoln; elaborate border made up of vignettes featuring a family and covered wagon, the Proclamation of Freedom, an African American family, two allegorical figures representing "Rebellion" and "Peace," and clasped hands over "The Union Forever" banner with wheat and cotton; Rebellion is holds a sword and tattered American flag while stepping on a many-headed dragon at bottom left; Peace holds a sheaf of grain and stands next to a Union shield and bald eagle with "E Pluribus Unum" banner.

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  Death of President Lincoln./At Washington D.C. April 15th 1865/The Nation's Martyr

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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)

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  The April Century

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  Image of an advertisement for The Century April 1896 issue featuring a message written in a window by John Wilkes Booth in Meadville, Pennsylvania, eight months before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; second page features a $100,000 reward poster for Lincoln's murderer from April 20, 1865.

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  "Abraham Lincoln, the Next President of the United States" campaign badge

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  Campaign badge with lithograph image of a clean-shaven Lincoln and words: "Abraham Lincoln, the Next President of the United States." Image is very faded.

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