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(LINCOLN ASSASSINATION.) War Department, Washington, April 20, 1865. $100,000 Reward! The Murderer of our late beloved President,
Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. Broadside, approximately 24x12 1/ 2 inches; unevenly toned, some loss at folds, folds and separations backed with mailing labels on verso at an early date, later printed small portraits of Surrat, Booth and Harold mounted within the frames; ex-library, with two unobtrusive embossed stamps. Washington, 1865
- Notes: america's most famous reward poster, issued only days after the assassination. The present copy is the last issue of the broadside with the additional information in Booth's description: "a heavy black moustache, which there is some reason to believe has been shaved off." This edition issued without the albumen photographs, although some copies exist with contemporary images mounted in the blank spaces.
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