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Black graveyard - approx. 2 miles east of Berrien County and Atkinson County line on Hwy. 82, south side of road

Tift County, Georgia, S546, approx. 7 miles west of Tifton

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Dr. Mudd's study room at The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

The parlour at The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

Back side of The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

Dr. Mudd's study room at The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

The parlour at The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

Room in which John Wilkes Booth rested at The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

The trail to Zekiah Swamp, leading away from The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

Dr. Walter Hough of Smithsonian in arrowhead quarry (Rock Creek Park), 3626

Dr. Mudd's old head stone on display behind the Dr. Samuel Mudd House in one of the stables in Waldorf, Maryland

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The assassinaton of Abraham Lincoln turned Dr. Mudd's mid-19th-century farmhouse into a historic site, when presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth sought medical treatment here on his escape route into Virginia.

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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2010 - 2020
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Unveiling of Confederate monument, Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, June 4, 1914

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maryland charles county waldorf abraham lincoln assassination dr samual a mudd john wilkes booth headstones historic houses digital photographs color carol m highsmith samuel mudd house head stone high resolution carol m highsmith america project united states history cemetery grave burial monuments library of congress virginia