American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography

14 CDVs, comprising:

Vignetted standing portrait of John Wilkes Booth leaning on a studio pillar and holding a walking stick. Philadelphia: J. A. Keenan. -- Seated portrait of John Wilkes Booth holding a walking stick and slightly leaning to one side, looking off-camera. Boston: Black & Case. With 2-cent revenue stamp affixed to verso. -- A similar seated portrait of Booth holding what appears to be the same walking stick but wearing a different jacket and waistcoat. Boston: Black & Case. -- 2 views of Edwin Booth, one by C. D. Fredricks & Co. with 2-cent revenue stamp on verso, the other by Anthony/Brady and accompanied by a newspaper clipping featuring a statement written by Edwin Booth after learning of his brother's crime. -- Composite image featuring a portrait of John Wilkes Booth surrounded by 6 portraits of conspirators titled on mount recto, "Booth and His Associates." Uncredited. -- Image of one of the boots worn by John Wilkes Booth during the assassination of Lincoln. Boston: T. Meehan. Bears purple ink imprint for E. M. Worth's American Museum and Meehan's Picture Store and Frame Factory on verso. -- An albumen photograph of a framed broadside promoting the performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre on the night of the assassination, mounted to a thin piece of cardstock. Uncredited. -- Portrait of Helen Western, a fellow thespian romantic acquaintance of John Wilkes Booth, leaning on a studio railing. Uncredited, but with her name written into the bottom of the image. Pencil identification on verso. -- Seated portrait of Fanny Brown, another fellow thespian and one of the women whose portraits were found in Booth's diary. New York: C. D. Fredricks & Co. -- And 4 other portraits including an engraved portrait of John Wilkes Booth's father, Junius Brutus Booth, 2 portraits of female acquaintances of Booth, and a portrait of Booth's brother-in-law John Sleeper Clarke. -- Together, 14 CDVs (or CDV-sized images).