assassination

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

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Three Scenes of the Assassination of Clerics

Augustin Braun (German, Cologne ca. 1570–1639 Cologne) Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assassination from BL Harley 4418, f. 140v

Miniature of an assassination scene, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders. Image taken from f. 140v of Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine (imperfect). Written in French. The ... More

The Triumph of Julius Caesar, school of Andrea Mantegna

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"The Assassination of Khusrau Parviz", Folio 742v from the Shahnama (B...

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"The Assassination of Khusrau Parviz", Folio 742v from the Shahnama (B...

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Trauerplakat Franz Ferdinand und Sophie - Dubrovnik - In kroatischer S...

Trauerplakat der Franziskaner von Dubrovnik - Naklada O. Franjevaca u Dubrovniku

Britania's assassination, or -- the republican amusement, British Cart...

Print shows members of the new ministry, among them, Fox, Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke, and Keppel, dismantle a statue of Britannia; they are prevented from doing further damage by Thurow and Mansfield who ... More

Taking physick, or, The news of shooting the King of Sweden, British C...

British caricature showing the King and Queen sitting in latrine, above which is part of the royal arms, the lion looking down and excreting. They look in horror at Pitt, who tells them of the shooting of Gusta... More

Michel Le Pelletier de St. Fargeau, président a mortier au parlement d...

Print shows Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, in medallion above frieze depicting his assassination in a restaurant in the Palais Royal. Printed below image: * l'A... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Gold-Covered Henri Auguste - Attempted Assassination of Bonaparte, Dec...

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Baron Dominique Vivant Denon - Attempted Assassination of Bonaparte, D...

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Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Gold-Covered Escape of Bonaparte from Assassination, Dec. 24, 1800.

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The Attempted Assassination of the President of the United States

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Baron Dominique Vivant Denon - Escape of Bonaparte from Assassination,...

A collection of 50 canadian coins, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vincenzo Camuccini - Roman Assassination of Julius Caesar

Vincenzo Camuccini (Italian, Rome 1771–1844 Rome) Public domain scan of 18th century Italian drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The assassination of the Sage of Ashland

The artist conveys some of the profound disappointment and anger among Henry Clay's many supporters at the nomination of Zachary Taylor at the June 1848 Whig convention in Philadelphia. The convention's act was... More

Appearance of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C., after the murder.

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portal of a stairway tower, with a man descending the stairs: presumab...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Assassination of James King, of William, corner of Montgomery and Wash...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 July 19, p. 88.

[Abraham Lincoln, bust-length portrait, facing right]

Ostendorf, no. 12 Meserve, no. 4 Original photograph: The original tintype is at the National Lincoln Museum (Old Ford's Theatre), according to Ostendorf. Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album /... More

John K. Smith to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, December 24, 1860 (Cameron ...

Ford's Theatre, Wash., D.C., American Civil War Glass Negative.

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Chair occupied by Pres. Lincoln, Ford's Theatre

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is avai... More

Chair occupied by Pres. Lincoln, Ford's Theatre

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Chair occupied by Pres. Lincoln, Ford's Theatre

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Lincoln died in this house, 516 10th St., N. W., opposite Ford's Theat...

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Chair occupied by Pres. Lincoln, Ford's Theatre

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is avai... More

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The pursuit, capture, death and buri...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Assassination of Ellsworth, at Alexandria, Va., May 24, 1861. Air-Cali...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The war began in earnest. A midnight march. Movement upon Alexandria a...

Two copies.

Assassination of President Lincoln, Metropolitan Museum of Art

William H. Key (active 1864–92) Public domain photograph of a medal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assassination of President Lincoln, bronze

William H. Key (active 1864–92) Public domain photograph of archaeological object, copper alloy metal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lincoln's funeral, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

Drawing shows Ford's Theatre, 10th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. decorated with funeral bunting for President Abraham Lincoln's funeral. Title inscribed below image. Formerly matted with Waud no. 572 (may be r... More

Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C...

Washington, April 14th, 1865. [MacClure, MacDonald & MacGregor depicti...

Extracted from Transatlantic sketches; or, Sixty days in America. London, S. Low, Son & Co., 1865.

The assassination of President Lincoln. At Ford's Theatre, Washington,...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The assassination of Pres Lincoln 1865

Sketch of bookstore with bunting. Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed right of image: Treason has done his worst / Ey [sic] high. Inscribed left of image: 332. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.152) ... More

[Washington, D.C., 1865 - David E. Herold, one of the Lincoln assassin...

David E. Herold, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, manacled. Reference copy available in the Civil War photograph soft print file. Original negative available for use: LC-B817-7786

Assassination of President Lincoln - the murderer leaping upon the sta...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20 (1865 May 6), p. 98 (cover).

[Scenes from the assassination of President Lincoln]

Three separate sketches. Two are street scenes and one a map. Title devised. Inscribed on the map left of image: Short without mantle strapped in saddle black Horse Gray Horse black and tan[] 3 curries in shirt... More

Ford's Theatre, scene of the assassination

"765" below photo. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support... More

Terry's panorama of the war! Assassination of Lincoln! and Secretary S...

0530M3.; S2 42.; Rec. R.B.; 9-28-42. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Port... More

Terrible work of blood. Assassination of the President and the Secreta...

Coffin containing the remains of President Lincoln; Small doors leadin...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 502 (1865 May 13), p. 125.

[Architectural details with notation: LINCOLN] during American Civil W...

Four sketches of Washington buildings. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.149) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Reading of the sentence before hanging of conspirators, Ford's Theatre...

The hanging of convicted conspirators David Herold, George Azterodt, Lewis Powell and Mary Surratt took place July 7, 1865 at 1:26pm. This photo depicts the reading of the death sentence moments before hanging.... More

Booth and his associates. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Montages shows portraits of John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln: George Azterodt, David Herold, Edmund Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, and Lewis Powell alias P... More

The martyr of Liberty - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows actor John Wilkes Booth shooting President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. A quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth appears below the title. This record contains unverified data... More

Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Exterior view of Ford's Theatre, 511 10th Street, NW. Best known as the location of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the building was originally constructed as a place of worship. in 1859 the structur... More

John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Meeting of condolence on the assassination of President Lincoln. Abrid...

Lincoln, Abraham,- Death. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 204, Folder 61.

[Washington, D.C., 1865 - Michael O'Laughlen, one of the Lincoln assas...

Michael O'Laughlen (also spelled O'Laughlin), half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, wearing hat, manacled. Reference copy available in the Civil War photograph soft print file. Original negative ... More

The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington D...

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John Wilkes Booth diary, artifact in the museum collection, National P...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Home of Mr. Petersen, opposite Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., where...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after Albert Berghaus. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 503 (1865 May 20), p. 132.

Poster broadcasting the hunt for John Wilkes Booth. Artifact in the mu...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Telegram extra. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. J. Wilkie Booth the ...

Lincoln, Abraham- Assassination,. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 126, Folder 10.

Assassination of the president Abraham Lincoln.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Civil War from "The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents...

This image has been taken from scan 000401 from "The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, civil, military, naval and domestic; embracing the ... events of the great conflict in... More

engraving from "The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the W...

This image has been taken from scan 000576 from "The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, civil, military, naval and domestic; embracing the ... events of the great conflict in... More

Dashiell's western panarama [sic] and moving mirror of the assassinati...

In pencil: the Union Hell on Tuesday [sic] Eve July 31, 1866."

[D.C. - Wash. - "Ford's Theatre as it was in 1865"]

Stereo by Bell & Bros. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Theaters.

The President's assassination. - Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lin...

Surrounded by a black mourning border. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Ford's Theatre, 10th St. N.W. Washington D.C. (where Lincoln was s...

Photo shows Ford's Theater and, to the right, the Central Free Dispensary, which opened in 1871. (Source: D. Tooley, 2007)

Laura Keene (1826-1873), Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, 2013.

Photo date unknown. Laura Keene, famous actress and leading lady in 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, halted the play when the Lincolns entered the theatre after the start of the play. ... More

James A. Garfield Papers: Series 4, General Correspondence, 1852-1882;...

Historical photograph of the assassination of President Garfield

Composite of 9 photoprints: portraits of Pres. Garfield, Dr. Bliss, Dr. Townshend and Guiteau the assassin; exterior of B.&P. Depot and room where he was shot; the coffin in State in U.S. Capitol; the gun used.... More

Where Justice will have to look for jurors who have not formed an opin...

Print shows Justice holding a large sword and carrying a lantern, with a cloth labeled "Justice" over her mouth, searching a cemetery, among tombstones labeled "Formed no opinion died 1660, Formed no opinion 16... More

The interior of the car, with the bed on which the President was carri...

Interior of a railroad car, President Garfield in bed being attended to by his wife and several doctors. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1881 Sept. 24, pp. 56-57. Reference copy in PRES FILE.

From the cradle to the grave, scenes and incidents in the life of Jame...

16919 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Sheehy, J.W., copyrig... More

New Jersey--The removal of President Garfield, with his physicians and...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1881 Sept. 24, p. 56-57.

The President recovering. Facts and incidents of the last week / from ...

Head-and-shoulders portraits of Mrs. Dr. Susan Edson, Dr. J.J. Woodward, and Dr. Robert Reyburn; woman handing guard bottle of patent medicine for the president; collection of quack medicines and apparatus; Jam... More

The hoaxer hoaxed / J.A. Wales. - Public domain engraving

Print shows New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett, holding a shotgun and carrying a bag labeled "Game Bag for Sensations J.G. Bennett", standing next to a scarecrow labeled "$500.00 Herald Cheque" and "Th... More

New Jersey--President Garfield at Elberon--His first view of the ocean...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 63, 1881 Oct. 1, p. 65.

[Events related to the assassination of President Garfield]

Prints show Alexander Graham Bell using his induction-balance device to locate the bullet in President Garfield's body; fireworks at Fort Greene in Brooklyn, New York; and an evening service at Asbury Park, New Jersey.

James A. Garfield Papers: Series 4, General Correspondence, 1852-1882;...

[Photograph of a painting of Ford's Theatre interior, showing where Pr...

Caption printed below the photo: "From original painting of the inside of the box at Ford's Theatre, in which the President, Abraham Lincoln, was shot, on the night of April 14, 1865. Numbered key identifies th... More

The Killing of Pizarro / Paris.

Illus. in: The New world heroes of discovery and conquest / by D.M. Kelsey. Philadelphia, Pa. : National Publishing Company, c1891, p. 414. Reference copy in Biog. File - Pizarro, Francisco, 1470?-1541.

Aroused! / Dalrymple. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows Marie-François-Sadi Carnot lying in state after being assassinated by an Italian anarchist; in the right foreground, a female figure holding a sword labeled "Law and Order" is stepping on a large sn... More

Fords opera house in which Abraham Lincoln was shot

Photograph showing horses and buggies in front of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Railroad Station, Washington DC

The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station located at 6th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW and has sometimes been refered to as the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. Built in 1873 and was the site of President James A.... More

[Sisters in sorrow] - Public domain portrait drawing

Britannia, a draped female figure, extends her hand to a mourning, female figure of Italia, kneeling beside a casket. Matted with offprint for published version. No copyright information found with item. Publis... More

Portrait photo of Charles J. Guiteau, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C. 2169 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: "No. 2."

Portrait photo of Charles J. Guiteau, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C. 2174 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: "No. 7."

The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition /

"The camera was positioned at such a height behind a large group of people outside an exhibit building that mainly hats are visible"--Early motion pictures. On Friday, September 6th, 1901, we had our cameras in... More

The "reds" and the "yellows" - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Puck pointing at two men and tugging at the robe of Justice who is raising the blindfold from over her eyes and giving a stern look at the men, one a ruffian holding a bomb and a red flag lab... More

Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin

Reproduction of first photograph of Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, in jail. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's weekly, McKinley extra, 1901 Sept. 9, cover. Copyrighted by Judge Company, 1901.

The martyred presidents /

This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of two othe... More

Anxious crowds reading bullitens[sic] of McKinley's condition the nigh...

H9823 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.

Surratt House, Washington DC - Victorian era public domain image

The Surratt house at 604 H Street, NW, 1901. Mary Surratt ran this boarding house in 1865 where John Wilkes Booth was alleged to have met with co-conspirators to plan President Lincoln’s assassination. ..Mrs. S... More

A new uniform and new responsibilities / Dalrymple.

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt taking over the duties of president following the assassination of President McKinley. He is standing in an office, holding a paper labeled "Mckinley's Policy"; his rough r... More

Execution of Czolgosz, with panorama of Auburn Prison /

The film begins by showing railroad cars in the foreground with the overshadowing walls of a state prison in the background. The second camera position, from a higher elevation, pans slowly showing the yard int... More

William McKinley. Martyred president - illustrious citizen, soldier & ...

Print shows a statue of William McKinley, full-length, standing on a pedestal with an eagle at his feet, a stars and stripes shield on center of the pedestal, and at the base of the monument female figures of C... More

Assassination of President McKinley

Czolgosz shoots President McKinley with a concealed revolver, at Pan-American Exposition reception, Sept. 6th, 1901. H65676 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of wash drawing by T. Dart Walker.