Wanted Posters

[Linda Anderson]

(04-30-2013 06:44 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  

(04-30-2013 06:08 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Jim -

Do you know what the LOC poster looks like? The one for the 16th? I've never heard of that one -

I've never seen it until last February. I don't know that it has ever been published. No pictures and the reward money is about half the amounts. If I remember, I don't think I could take a picture of it because they don't allow photography in the rare book room. It is the same format as the one posted on this thread. I think it has Lafayette Baker's name on the bottom, not Edwin Stanton.

The Manuscript Reading Room has a scanner that we used for a document that we couldn't photograph. Maybe the rare book room has one as well that you can use.

There is a photograph in American Brutus of a reward flyer for the "Murderer of the President, Mr. Lincoln! and the Assassin of the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward!"

"General Christopher Augur posted a reward of $10,000 within hours after the assassination. This flyer, discovered by the author [Michael Kauffman] is the only known advertisement for that offer." It's in the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.