Abstract

Small CDV (carte-de-visit) containing photographs of John Wilkes Booth, George Atzerodt, Edmund Spangler, Michael O'Laughlin, Lewis Powell, Samuel Arnold, and David Herold. CDV dates to circa 1865.

Abstract Created in 1865, this CDV depicts John Wilkes Booth being shot on April 26, 1865, and is published by Hacker, Rhode Island, 1865. The drawing shows David Herold being captured outside the barn. On the verso is advertising for "Bicknell's Syrup", a cholera remedy, which contains description of a "purely vegetable" remedy for cholera prepared by Edward Sutton, Providence, Rhode Island, Demas Barnes & Co., as well as a testimony from wholesale dealer Benjamin Hall. Booth (1838-1865)...