Andrew Johnson taking the Oath of Office as President, Kirkwood House, April 15, 1865, artist's impression

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Scanned by: 

Jia Ma, House Divided Project, Dickinson College

Scan date: 

11/06/2015

Notes: 

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, November 8, 2015.

Depicted content: 

• Vice-President Andrew Johnson takes the oath as seventeenth President of the United States
• Johnson, Andrew

Image type: 

engraving

Original caption: 

Andrew Johnson taking the oath of office in the small parlor of the Kirkwood House, Washington.

Source citation: 

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 6, 1866, 245.