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Currier & Ives|Clara Hamilton Harris|Abraham Lincoln|John Wilkes Booth|Mary Todd Lincoln|Henry Reed Rathbone

The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., April 14th, 1865

1865
Hand-colored lithograph
19.8 × 30.8 cm (7.8 × 12.1 in)

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