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Title
Ford's Theatre Tenth Street, Above E. Season II Week XXXI Night 196. Whole Number Of Nights, 495 ... : Friday Evening, April 14th, 1865. Benefit! And Last Night Of Miss Laura Keene ... Tom Taylor's ... Eccentric Comedy, ... Entitled Our American Cousin
Alternative Title
Playbill for Our American Cousin, Friday April 14, 1865
Creator
H. Polkinhorn & Son, printer
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
United States Civil War
Rights Information
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Description
Broadside. Playbill for Our American cousin the night of Lincoln's assassination.
First version of playbill without poem. Source unknown; in Library Nov. 1, 1922 A contemporary forgery was also produced, with Lincoln's name in the title. Cf. HEH 111627 .
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 broadside ; 48 x 16 cm (19 x 6 in.)
Identifier
RB 119790
397688
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5034
Language
English
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination
Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
Playbills--United States--1865. (aat)
Source
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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