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Abraham Lincoln Assassination Hartford, CT, ca. 1890s Stereograph of Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre When Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated Photograph [LINCOLN ASSASSINATION.] "3404. Place where President Lincoln was Assassinated," The War for the Union / Photographic War History. Stereograph. Hartford, CT: The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, ca. 1890s. 1 p., 7" x 4". General toning; very good. This stereograph of the presidential box at Ford's Theatre was produced in the early 1890s as part of an extensive series of Civil War "views" that lecturers could use to illustrate their presentations to veterans' groups and the general public. The series also included an image (No. 3405) of the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when he was shot, and two (Nos. 799 and 800) of the execution of the Lincoln conspirators. Excerpt (verso) "3404. Place where President Lincoln was Assassinated. "This is the private box in Ford's Theater, Washington, where President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, on the night of April 14, 1865." "This series of pictures are original photographs taken during the war of the Rebellion. More than a quarter of a century has passed away since the sun painted these real scenes of that great war, and the ‘negatives' (made by the old ‘wet plate' process) have undergone chemical changes which renders it slow and difficult work to get ‘prints' from them. Of course no more ‘negatives' can be made, as the scenes represented by this series of war views have passed away forever. The great value of these pictures is apparent. Some ‘negatives' are entirely past printing from, and all of them are very slow printers." Historical Background Between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m. on Friday, April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., during a performance of Our American Cousin, a popular English farce. Only five days earlier, Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the war that had consumed Lincoln's Presidency. The reelected President looked forward to a more peaceful second term in office. Soldiers carried the unconscious President across 10th Street to the Petersen Boarding House because doctors feared he would not survive the carriage ride back to the Executive Mansion, about a mile away. In the boarding house, he was placed diagonally on a bed in a back room rented by an army clerk. Despite the attendance of the best doctors in Washington, Lincoln's wound was mortal. He died at 7:22 a.m. on Saturday, April 15. "The War for the Union" Stereograph Series was published by The War Photograph & Exhibition Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and included more than six thousand different views. In 1890, Union veterans William Huntington (1839-1918) and John C. Taylor (1845-1909) purchased the collection of photographs created by Mathew Brady and his associates, supplemented by negatives produced by Alexander Gardner, and established the War Photograph & Exhibition Company. When Brady went bankrupt, Edward Anthony and Henry T. Anthony of New York purchased his negatives. Colonel Arnold A. Rand and General Albert Ordway purchased them in 1879 and sold them to Taylor and Huntington in 1890. Taylor and Huntington's War Photograph and Exhibition Company provided slides, lecture notes, stereographs, and photographs pasted to cardboard for display and sale to lecturers on the war throughout the nation. The company particularly marketed its products and services to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union veterans' organization. This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses. WE PROVIDE IN-HOUSE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE.