Primary tabs

• View (active tab)
• Zoomify

Execution of the Lincoln Conspiracy Plotters, Washington, D.C., July 7, 1865, bodies hanging, zoomable image

Download Original Image

Scanned by: 

Library of Congress

Notes: 

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 14, 2015.

Depicted content: 

• Four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, are executed in Washington, D.C.
• Lincoln's Assassination

Image type: 

photograph

Courtesy of: 

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Original caption: 

[Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing]

Source citation: 

Civil War Glass Negative Collection, Library of Congress