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

Scanned by

Library of Congress

Notes

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

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

Source note

Cropped from the fuller image, also available here.