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Gardner, Alexander
American (b. Scotland, 1821-1882)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Conspirator's execution - bodies hanging from scaffold
ALBUM TITLE: "The Lincoln Conspiracy", 1865

1865
PUBLISHER: Rand, Arnold, Col.
albumen print
19.3 x 19.1 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 39144
72:0033:0049

This image was part of GEH's 1999 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "July 7 1865"

NOTES: Catalogued 4/91, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
event, execution
people, dead
architecture, scaffold
landscape, prison yard

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