Gardner's Photos of Conspirators' Executions Sell for $100,000

[Linda Anderson]

"Four photographs depicting the hangings of four Lincoln assassination co-conspirators has sold for an incredible $100,000 at auction.
The images of the historic event were taken by Alexander Gardner in Washington DC on July 7, 1865.
Depicting soldiers, reporters and witnesses gathered around the scaffold, the images are considered to be among the first examples of photojournalism."


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