Execution of the Conspirators Stereoview

Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), photographer. No. 983. Execution of the Conspirators. The Suspension. Albumen stereoview on orange mount. Washington, DC: Philp & Solomons, 7 July 1865. From the series Photographic Incidents of the War. Publisher’s information label affixed to mount verso. 1865 copyright statement printed to mount recto.

A grisly outdoor view showing the hanging corpses of four conspirators in Lincoln’s assassination: Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold, and George Atzerodt at the Old Arsenal Prison. Captured by Alexander Gardner who extensively documented the aftermath of the president’s assassination in excruciating detail. The view here captures the corpses after “the drop”, with Mary, the first woman hanged in America, on the far left. Three soldiers, two in movement, can be seen on the ramparts behind the gallows.





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