American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography

4 CDVs depicting Lincoln assassination conspirators, each approx. 3 1/2 x 2 in. or smaller, on cardstock mounts. Subjects include:

Edmund Spangler. Vignetted image after lithograph/engraving, Spangler incorrectly identified in lower margin as "Edward." Uncredited. Spangler was an employee at Ford's Theater with questionable connections to the assassination plot. He had been instructed by Booth to hold the getaway horse, but decided to pass that task along to a different individual. -- George A. Atzerodt. Vignetted image after lithograph/engraving, printed caption trimmed from bottom edge of mount and affixed to print, just below image. Washington, DC: Alexander Gardner, photographer, Philp & Solomons, publishers, 1865. Atzerodt was tasked with assassinating then-Vice-President Andrew Johnson, but lost his nerve. -- John H. Surratt dressed in Zouave uniform. Uncredited, though original portrait was taken by Brady. -- Vignetted portrait after lithograph/engraving of a woman identified as "Mrs. Surat" (Surratt misspelled). Uncredited, 2-cent US Internal Revenue stamp on verso. Mary Surratt, who owned the boarding house where Booth and his fellow conspirators plotted the assassination, never actually had her photograph taken with the other conspirators. Nevertheless, portraits such as this were produced and distributed to the masses, which were clamoring to acquire an image of the sole female conspirator and the first woman to be executed by the US Government.

Together, 4 CDVs.