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John Wilkes Booth Being Shot CDV
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-035
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)...
Dates:
1865
J. E. Cooley [New York] Advertising Broadside,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-007
Abstract
Single-page advertising flyer and price list for J. E. Cooley, grocer, New York, NY, dated 1863.
Dates:
1863
"Jeff Davis in his Wife's Clothes" Song Sheet
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-040
Abstract
This collection contains a song sheet for "Jeff Davis in his Wife's Clothes," published by A. W. Auner and Wanamaker & Brown's, Clothing Store, both of Philadelphia. The song depicts a comical representation of Jefferson Davis' defeat by the Union army during the American Civil War in 1865.
Dates:
c. 1865