"The Chair That President Lincoln Occupied at the Time of His Assassination at Ford's Theater", c. 1865

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Medium

stereoscopic albumen print

Dimensions

image (each): 7.9 × 8 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

sheet: 7.9 × 16 cm (3 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
mount: 8.4 × 17.7 cm (3 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Harris, in memory of Shirlee A. Harris

Accession Number

2018.195.3

Artists / Makers

Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries (artist) American, 1860 - 1875

E. & H.T. Anthony (publisher) American, 1862 - 1902

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Inscription

along left edge of mount printed in gold ink: PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY; along right edge: THE WAR FOR THE UNION.; across bottom: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of New York.; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied blue paper: WAR VIEWS / The Chair that President Lincoln occupied at the time of his assassination at / Ford's Theatre. / No. 3405 / Copyright Secured. / PUBLISHED BY E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO. / AMERICAN AND FOREIGN STEREOSCOPIC EMPORIUM, 501 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK. / Negative by BRADY & Co., WASHINGTON.

Provenance

(Thomas Harris, New York); NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Harris, Thomas