A half-length portrait of George A. Atzerodt, then a suspect in the investigation of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, looking slightly to his right. He is sitting down, slouching, and is wearing a hat. Atzerodt, a German wagon painter, was arrested at home of his cousin in the early morning of April 20. Title from mount. Herbert William Singleton Collection Of Civil War Photographs, Huntington Digital Library, San Marino, California.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 print : albumen ; image 15.9 x 15.9 cm (6 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.) ; overall 22.9 x 27.9 cm (9 x 11 in.)
Atzerodt, George A., 1835-1865--Photographs Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Source
Herbert William Singleton Collection Of Civil War Photographs (ca. 1861-1890s) Views of President Lincoln: the Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators: and Portraits of the Conspirators by Mathew Brady & Alexander Gardner / Issued by Taylor & Huntington, United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Lindsey M. Gould, a Civil War veteran, acquired the photographs in the 1880s as a keepsake of his war experience. At Mr. Gould’s death around 1919, the entire collection went to his close friend Herbert W. Singleton. The collection remained in the Singleton family until May 2001 when the Huntington Library acquired it through a gift and purchase arrangement.
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