Portrait of John Wilkes Booth, circa 1860
THF210535 / Portrait of John Wilkes Booth, circa 1860
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Artifact Overview
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 Details
Artifact
Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
Subject Date
1860-1864
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
91.0.191.19
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Albumen process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 3.938 in
Width: 2.375 in
Inscriptions
Printed on lower edge under image: JOHN WILKES BOOTH
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