Full length photograph of Lewis Payne wearing an trench coat and a hat, in front of a canvas backdrop. His head is turned to his left, his left hand is in the pocket of the coat. Lewis Payne, also known as Lewis Powell or Lewis Thornton Powell, was one of the men hanged for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the man responsible for the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward. Photographed under arrest aboard the U.S.S. Montauk. Gardner took at least 10 photographs of Payne on possibly 2 occasions -- 6 of which he copyrighted (the only ones for which he did so). Gardner took at least 6 photos of Payne in front of the canvas awning on the Montauk. When Payne first came out, he was in handcuffs and wearing a hat. The cuffs were removed and he was given the coat that he wore the night he attacked Seward. 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 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) ; overall 27.9 x 22.9 cm (11 x 9 in.)
Payne, Lewis, 1845-1865--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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