Booth the Murderer, attributed to Alexander Gardner, 1865
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- Chicago History Museum, ICHi-29763
Wanted!
During the manhunt for Booth, wanted posters and small photographs of the actor were widely circulated to aid the search. This photograph was posted in the doorway of a Union army structure at Point Lookout, Maryland, site of a Civil War hospital and Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.