Autographed Portrait of John Wilkes Booth, circa 1860
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Well-known actor John Wilkes Booth--better remembered for the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln--posed for this carte-de-visite in a professional photographer's studio around 1860. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, remained popular from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
Well-known actor John Wilkes Booth--better remembered for the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln--posed for this carte-de-visite in a professional photographer's studio around 1860. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, remained popular from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
Artifact
Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
Date Made
circa 1860
Subject Date
circa 1860
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
66.143.34
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Albumen process
Handwriting
Mounting
Color
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 4 in (irregular)
Width: 2.563 in
Inscriptions
Handwritten in script on lower front, in ink: J. Wilkes Booth Text on back of image reads: J. CARBUTT / PHOTOGRAPH ARTIST / 131 LAKE STREET / CHICAGO
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