Civil War Original Period Items

Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865

Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865
Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865
Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865
Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865
Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865
Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865

Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865

This photo of John Wilkes Booth is part of well preserved Civil War CDV album. People didn't just keep these photos for identification; they exchanged them as tokens of friendship and memory.

This cultural practice turned carte de visite photography into something more significant than just snapshots; they became windows into the lives of people from the past. Booth was a well-known actor from a prominent 19th-century acting family. He was a strong supporter of the Confederacy and fiercely opposed to Lincoln's policies.

On April 14, 1865, he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. As part of a larger conspiracy to decapitate the Union government. He fled the scene and was the subject of an intense 12-day manhunt before being tracked down and killed by Union soldiers in Virginia.

Measures 4 x 2.5 inches. Stable good condition with some discoloration.


Original CDV of John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln 1865