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Title: Execution of the Conspirators at Washington, July 7, 1865
Alternative Title: Harper's Weekly
Creator: Harper's Magazine Co., publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865-07-22
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Images from Harper's Weekly are sketches pulled from photographs taken by Alexander Gardner. Includes images of conspirators and several views of scaffold in use with lines of soldiers in prison yard.
From photographs by Alexander Gardner (1845-1928). p. 457, lower left: "Drawn by A. McCallem." p. 457, lower right: "Sketched by E. A. Perkins." p. 456 image and p. 457 upper two images say photographed by Gardner; the three conspirator portraits also from Gardner images.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 bound volume ; 29.8 x 41.9 x 6.4 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Identifier: 499752
397704
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5095
Language: English
Subject: Executions--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--District of Columbia--Washington
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities
Periodical illustrations--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Payne, Lewis, 1845-1865
Atzerodt, George A., 1835-1865
Herold, David E., 1844-1865
Place: Washington (D.C.)
Source: United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: Harper's weekly, v. 09, pp. 456-7

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