Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold. Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821-1882 Washington, D.C.). Dimensions: Sheet: 60.5 x 31.3 cm (23 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.)Each photograph: 8.6 x 5.4 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.). Maker: Unknown (American). Photography Studio: Silsbee, Case & Company (American, active Boston); Unknown. Date: April 20, 1865.On the night of April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. Within twenty-four hours, Secret Service director Colonel Lafayette Baker had already acquired photographs of Booth and two of his accomplices. Booth's photograph was secured by a standard police search of the actor's room at the National Hotel; a photograph of John Surratt, a suspect in the plot to kill Secretary of State William Seward, was obtained from his mother, Mary (soon to be indicted as a fellow conspirator), and David He

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Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold. Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821-1882 Washington, D.C.). Dimensions: Sheet: 60.5 x 31.3 cm (23 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.)Each photograph: 8.6 x 5.4 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.). Maker: Unknown (American). Photography Studio: Silsbee, Case & Company (American, active Boston); Unknown. Date: April 20, 1865.On the night of April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. Within twenty-four hours, Secret Service director Colonel Lafayette Baker had already acquired photographs of Booth and two of his accomplices. Booth's photograph was secured by a standard police search of the actor's room at the National Hotel; a photograph of John Surratt, a suspect in the plot to kill Secretary of State William Seward, was obtained from his mother, Mary (soon to be indicted as a fellow conspirator), and David He

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