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Title: John Wilkes Booth
Creator: Charles D. Fredricks & Co., photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1860
1861
1862
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1865
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: A three-quarters length studio portrait of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth turned very slightly to the left. Booth has a full, dark mustache, and is wearing a large coat over his suit. He is holding the front of his overcoat in his gloved left hand.
Ms. note on verso reads "J. Wilkes Booth ; Shot April 26, 1865." Attributed to C. D Fredericks & Co. (active 1850s-1860s).
Type: image
Extent: 1 print: albumen; approximately 8 cm x 5 cm (approximately 3 in. x 2 in.)
Identifier: photCL 511 (3)
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/4959
Subject: Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Albumen prints. (aat)
Source: Collection of Civil War-related Carte-de-Visite
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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