[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) - ASSASSINATION]. American and Commercial Advertiser. Vol. CXXX, No. 21,397. Baltimore, MD: 17 April 1865.
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[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) - ASSASSINATION]. American and Commercial Advertiser. Vol. CXXX, No. 21,397. Baltimore, MD: 17 April 1865.
4pp., folio, 21 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. Disbound (brittle edges, chipping, tearing including 5 in. vertical tear extending from bottom of front page into 5th column of text, some loss at edges, some staining to margins). Provenance: Library of Stephen Foreman (blindstamp on newspaper, p.3, lower right).
This war-date newspaper contains prominent front page headlines and detailed coverage of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
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