Execution of the Lincoln Conspiracy Plotters, Washington, D.C., July 7, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

06/30/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 11, 2015.

Depicted ContentFour condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, are executed in Washington, D.C.

Image type

engraving

Original caption

Execution of the Conspirators in Washington, D.C. - The final preparations - appearance of the criminals on the scaffold. - From a sketch by Our Special Artist, D.B. Gulick.

Source citation

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 22, 1865, 273.

Source note

Cropper from the fuller image, also available here.