lincoln assassination, rare book and special collections division

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

Lincoln's last hour. - Public domain portrait drawing

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 6, 1865.

The Evening Telegraph, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

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

Live but one moment: ballad poetry & music by J.W. Turner.

Plate/Publisher number: 5062 Additional copy (scsm0182) with variant imprint.

The Richmond Times, [newspaper]. April 21st, 1865.

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

Public Ledger, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dayton Extra Journal, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

We mourn our loved and martyred guide!

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

Boston Post, newspaper. April 18, 1865

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 3, 1865.

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 4, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 21st, 1865.

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. April 19, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain periodicals page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sketches of Lincoln perhaps by Morand.

Believed to have been sketched from life by the French artist, Pierre Morand. Cf. U. S. Library of Congress. Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 19, 1962, p. 148. Newspaper clipping attached on back o... More

[mourning badge.] - Public domain print

White satin mourning badge, stamped in gold, with vertical black borders on each side. Bust portrait of Lincoln.

Death of President Lincoln. - Public domain scan / engraving

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Satan tempting Booth to the murder of the President, [Magee Portrait o...

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Death Bed of Abraham Lincoln, [Magee print].

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, funeral, burial, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The President Dead! - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 2, 1865.

The Richmond Whig, [newspaper]. April 18, 1865.

The Sun, [newspaper]. May 8, 1865.

Ford's Theatre. Washington, D. C. [Playbills for Friday evening, April...

"Brown" type reproduction. Cf. Brenner, Ford's Theatre Lincoln Assassination Playbills. Another copy: E or Buckingham reproduction reprinted as a "Lincoln Souvenir" and stamped: "Engraving, Copyright. 1891."

[mourning badge], True in life, true in death! Our country mourns the ...

Black bordered mourning ribbon with portrait of Lincoln. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[mourning badge], True in life, true in death! Our country mourns the ...

Black bordered mourning ribbon with portrait of Lincoln. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 21st, 1865.

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

Daily Morning Chronicle, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

The Sun, [newspaper]. New York, April 19, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

Buffalo Commerical Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 17, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Theory. Practice. Effect. - Public domain print

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 1, 1865.

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The Richmond Whig, [newspaper]. April 18, 1865.

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New York Times, [newspaper]. April 18, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

Wilke's Spirit of the Times, [newspaper]. April 22st, 1865.

Wilke's Spirit of the Times, [newspaper]. April 22st, 1865.

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

President Lincoln dead. Assassinated in the theatre at Washington last...

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[mourning badge.] - Public domain portrait print

White satin mourning badge, stamped in gold, with vertical black borders on each side. Bust portrait of Lincoln.

God will avenge our slaughtered leader!

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 25, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain periodicals page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Masonic Trowel, [newspaper]. May 15th, 1865.

Mourning border employed.

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 25, 1865.

The Sun, [newspaper]. April 29th, 1865.

[Postcard. Ford's Theatre. The house in which Lincoln died.]

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New York Times, [newspaper]. April 19, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 29, 1865.

In memoriam. "Gods will, not ours be done."

Includes oval portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 15th, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain poetry book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Sun, [newspaper]. April 27th, 1865.

[Mourning badge of colored satin with portrait of Lincoln]. Assassinat...

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

New York Times, [newspaper]. May 4, 1865.

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Public Ledger, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

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The assassin's escape. - Public domain portrait engraving

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

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 27, 1865.

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The terrible tragedy at Washington. Assassination of President Lincoln...

Printed in English on one side and German on the other. Advertisement for a book that was published by Barclay & Co., Philadelphia, in 1865. (Monaghan768.)

[Mourning badge of colored satin with portrait of Lincoln]. Assassinat...

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

The Sun, [newspaper]. New York, April 19, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

New York Times, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

The martyr of liberty. - Public domain print

The martyr of liberty hath borne his faculties so meek; has been so clear in his great office; that his virtues shall plead, trumped-tongued against the deep damnation of his taking off. Volume 4, no 54 is a duplicate.

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

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

Execution of the four conspirators: Mrs. Surrat, Payne, Harold & Atzer...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National calamity! Lincoln & Seward assassinated!!

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

$100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham L...

Broadside advertising reward for capture of Lincoln assassination conspirators, illustrated with photographic prints of John H. Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and David E. Herold.

Sketches of Lincoln perhaps by Morand.

Believed to have been sketched from life by the French artist, Pierre Morand. Cf. U. S. Library of Congress. Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 19, 1962, p. 148. Newspaper clipping attached on back o... More

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 6, 1865.

[Lincoln, Mourning ribbon.] - Public domain portrait engraving

White silk mourning ribbon with portrait of Lincoln woven into the fabric.

Public Ledger, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On the death of President Lincoln! Who was assassinated on the 14th of...

Poem surrounded by black mourning border.

A nation mourns her martyr'd son.

Surrounded by black mourning border.

Daily Monitor Extra. Special dispatches, arrest of Booth, [Newspaper].

Daily Alta California, newspaper. April 16, 1865

Mourning border employed.

The nation in tears: in memoriam, Abraham Lincoln; may be sung as a so...

Number of duplicate copies: 1 (advts. and 2nd engraving lacking). Additional copy (scsm0176) with variant cover and foliation, advts. present.

New York Times, [newspaper]. April 26, 1865.

The Evening Telegraph, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

The Standard, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

Mourning border employed

The nation in tears: in memoriam, Abraham Lincoln; may be sung as a so...

Additional copy (scsm0175) with variant cover and foliation, advts. lacking.

The New York Herald, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

The New York Herald, [newspaper]. April 15, 1865.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 19th, 1865.

The Sun, [newspaper]. April 20th, 1865.

The Richmond Whig, [newspaper]. April 18, 1865.

Monody on the death of A. Lincoln: sixteenth president of the United S...

Plate/Publisher number: 6348-4

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. April 19, 1865.

The assassin's vision: ballad words & music by J.W. Turner.

Plate/Publisher number: 5074 Additional copy (scsm0178) with variant imprint.

Sketches of Lincoln perhaps by Morand.

Believed to have been sketched from life by the French artist, Pierre Morand. Cf. U. S. Library of Congress. Quarterly Journal of current acquisitions, v. 19, 1962, p. 148. Newspaper clipping attached on back o... More

Cincinnati Daily Commercial, [newspaper]. April 19th, 1865.

The Sun, [newspaper]. New York, April 17, 1865.

Bangor Daily Evening Times, [newspaper]. April 29, 1865.

Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. April 26, 1865.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 26th, 1865.

New York Times, [newspaper]. April 28, 1865.

New York Times, [newspaper]. April 28, 1865.

New York Times, [newspaper]. April 28, 1865.

Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. April 22, 1865.

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

General orders no. 50. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

The Weekly Herald, [newspaper]. April 29, 1865.

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. May 5, 1865.