LINCOLN -- ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander, Photographer . Photograph of John Howard's "Livery & Sale Stables" on 7th Street, Washington, D.C., where Booth kept the horse on which he escaped after the assassination. Albumen photograph, 172 x 245 mm. With imprint of Kemp, Photographer, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. on verso. WHERE BOOTH KEPT HIS GETAWAY HORSE. In the wake of the assassination Gardner was extremely active in documenting the sites relating to the conspiracy and the assassination. In addition to the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, the Theatre's exterior, and other obvious subjects, Gardner even photographed the telegraph office from which news of Lincoln's death was despatched to the nation. See "The Conspiracy," in D.M. Katz, Witness to an Era , pp.143-171 (this photograph illustrated at p.153). Provenance : Philip Sang collection, sale 26 April 1978, lot 201 (part).
LINCOLN -- ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander, Photographer . Photograph of John Howard's "Livery & Sale Stables" on 7th Street, Washington, D.C., where Booth kept the horse on which he escaped after the assassination. Albumen photograph, 172 x 245 mm. With imprint of Kemp, Photographer, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. on verso. WHERE BOOTH KEPT HIS GETAWAY HORSE. In the wake of the assassination Gardner was extremely active in documenting the sites relating to the conspiracy and the assassination. In addition to the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, the Theatre's exterior, and other obvious subjects, Gardner even photographed the telegraph office from which news of Lincoln's death was despatched to the nation. See "The Conspiracy," in D.M. Katz, Witness to an Era , pp.143-171 (this photograph illustrated at p.153). Provenance : Philip Sang collection, sale 26 April 1978, lot 201 (part).
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