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Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 [Lincoln assassination conspirators]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07738 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 27 April 1865 Pagination: 9 photographs Order a Copy

Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S. Montauk and the U.S.S. Saugus. Decimalized, GLC07738.01-.09

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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