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Abraham Lincoln in Prints & Photographs

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

These images were selected from the collections of the Library of Congress in response to requests regularly received by the Prints & Photographs Division.

Satan tempting Booth to the murder of the President. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Washington, District of Columbia. President's box at Ford's Theatre. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington, D.C. Ford's Theater with guards posted at entrance and crepe draped from windows]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

$100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Wilkes Booth. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Edman Spangler, a "conspirator," in hat and manacled]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. David E. Herold, a conspirator]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Samuel Arnold, a conspirator (seated). Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. George A. Atzerodt, a conspirator]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Michael O'Laughlin, a conspirator, manacled]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Lewis Payne, the conspirator who attacked Secretary Seward, standing in overcoat and hat. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington, D.C. Adjusting the ropes for hanging the conspirators]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns. "The door is open for all" / H. Thomas ; lithogr. by Kimmel & Forster, 256 Canal Str., N.Y. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.