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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Execution of Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. Adjusting the Ropes.
PUBLISHED TITLE: Adjusting the Ropes for hanging the conspirators. Washington, D.C.
ALBUM TITLE: "The Lincoln Conspiracy", 1865

1865
albumen print
16.8 x 23.4 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 20889
72:0033:0035

NON-GEH NUMBER: 2086

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 271.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 28 - September 17, 1989. (Traveled).//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed on mount) "2086" (in ink) "Execution of Lincoln Assassination Conspirators" "Adjusting the Ropes."

NOTES: Catalogued 5/88, DZ.

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