Petersen's Boarding House, Washington, D.C., circa 1909

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Petersen's Boarding House, Washington, D.C., circa 1909

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 2, 2015.

Depicted ContentPresident Lincoln's body taken from Petersen's Boarding house to the White House two hours after death

Depicted ContentPresident Lincoln dies from the head wound John Wilkes Booth inflicted eight hours before

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The House in which Lincoln Died

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Clara E. Laughlin, The Death of Lincoln: The Story of Booth's Plot, His Deed and the Penalty (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909), 120.

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