The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:

Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress

These images were selected from the collections of the Library of Congress in response to requests regularly received by the Prints and Photographs Division.

The images are presented for educational and research purposes. The Library of Congress is unaware of any restrictions on the use of the images. However, patrons who plan to publish or otherwise distribute any of the images should be aware that determination regarding the appropriate use of an image ultimately rests with the patron. The Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission for use of the images. For further information, see "Copyright and Other Restrictions That Apply to Publication/Distribution of Images..."

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Satan tempting Booth to the murder of the President LC-USZ62-8933 (b&w film copy neg.)	President's box at Ford's Theatre LC-DIG-cwpb-02961	The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865 LC-USZC2-1947 (color film copy slide)	Ford's Theater with guards posted at entrance and crepe draped from windows LC-DIG-cwpb-04202
$100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large LC-USZC4-5341 (color film copy transparency)	John Wilkes Booth, half-length portrait LC-DIG-ppmsca-13706	Edman Spangler, a "conspirator" LC-DIG-cwpb-04220	David E. Herold, a conspirator LC-DIG-cwpb-04218
Samuel Arnold, a conspirator LC-DIG-cwpb-04214	George A. Atzerodt, a conspirator LC-DIG-cwpb-04216	Michael O'Laughlin, a Lincoln conspirator LC-DIG-cwpb-04217	Lewis Payne the conspirator who attacked Secretary Seward LC-DIG-cwpb-04206
Adjusting the ropes for hanging the conspirators	President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue LC-DIG-cwpb-00593	Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois LC-USZ62-4376 (b&w film copy neg.)	"The Last Offer of Reconciliation ..." LC-USZC2-469 (color film copy slide)

For additional images and information:

Search terms for the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Abraham Lincoln assassination [view records and images]; Abraham Lincoln death [view records and images - retrieves a few extraneous images, as well as many interesting ones!). Also try names of individuals and locations associated with Lincoln's assassination, death and funeral.
Learn more about President Abraham Lincoln by reading some of the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress which includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material.

Prepared by: Prints & Photographs Division staff. Last revised: January 2008.

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