Booth's comments on Spangler ?

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(10-27-2012 01:50 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Betty, I made a scan of it. No date is given.

The image of the back of Ford's Theatre, according to Looking For Lincoln is from either the Meserve-Kunhardt collection or the Mellon collection, without further description of photo size, etc. It appears on the same page as period images of the Surratt boarding house, Dr. Mudd's house, and the Garrett farm house on page 44. Those three photographs are circular, which is characteristic of being taken by a Kodak #1 or a Kodak #2 camera, both introduced in 1889. The Kodak #1 produced 2 1/2 inch photographs and the Kodak #2 produced 3 1/2 inch images. Both were manufactured until 1897. It's quite possible the Ford's Theatre image was cropped and was orginally taken with one of these early Kodak cameras, meaning it dates to after 1889.