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. Date supplied by cataloger based on issue content; Four Lincoln Conspiracies by Victor Louis Mason appeared in the April 1896 issue of The Century. "Written by J. Wilkes Booth on the window=pane of a hotel at Meadville, Pa., eight months before the assassination of Lincoln. One of the Four Lincoln Conspiracies Graphically described in The Century for April, with many illustrations and new and interesting facts By Victor Louis Mason, of the U.S. War Department"--text, bottom center of image, page 1.
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image
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1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 40.8 x 28.42 cm (16 1/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
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