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THB[LINCOLN] (7) John Wilkes Booth CDVs
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LiveOct 10, 2025
Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com
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Note: Please see Day 3 (October 11) of the sale that features rare material relating to the Gettysburg Address.
A group of 7 CDVs of John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Views include:
1. [Charles D. Fredericks, photographer] and Williamson. Altered portrait of Booth with illustration of a devil whispering in his ear. Albumen CDV. New York: Macoy & Herwig, 1865. Photographer's & publisher's imprint to verso. Period pencil identification to recto.
An alteration from a circa 1863 portrait of Booth taken by Charles Deforest Fredricks. A devil has been whispering evil temptations in the assassin's ear.
2. Booth & His Associates. Composite albumen CDV. N.p., circa 1865. Subjects identified in negative. Titled to mount recto.
3. The Assassin's Vision. Illustrated albumen CDV. Rhode Island: Francis Hacker, 1865. Titled in negative. Copyright statement to mount recto.
In this bizarrely altered portrait of Lincoln and Booth, the latter rides a horse with a dagger affixed to its neck, while the former, whose jacket-clad body is apparently composed of the scenery around him, stands between a pair of trees adorned with his own smaller bust-length likenesses. The artist's intention with the piece may be lost to time, but its dreamlike, surrealist nature is highly compelling.
4. Seated three-quarter length view albumen CDV. Bangor, Maine: S.W. Sawyer, [circa 1862-1863]. Illustrated imprint to verso.
5. Seated half-length view with hand on hip albumen CDV. Baltimore, Maryland: Selby & Dulany, [circa 1865]. Imprint to verso.
This particular pose was reproduced on wanted posters issued by the War Department during the manhunt for Lincoln’s killer.
6. Half-length portrait wearing a tweed suit with velvet collar. Boston: T.R. Burnham, n.d. Publisher's imprint to mount verso.
7. Standing three-quarter length portrait of Booth. Chicago: M. O'Brien, n.d. Publisher's imprint to mount recto.
[Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Mary Todd Lincoln, 1860 Election, Election of 1860, 1864 Election, Election of 1864, Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards, Stereographs]
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