JWB and his pipe!

[STS Lincolnite]

(01-24-2015 08:10 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008680389/

The LOC description reads: "Photograph showing portrait of John Wilkes Booth, seated, holding pipe". (I had always thought it was a cane...)

I think that description is wrong. It looks like a cane or walking stick to me. In fact, I think Dave Taylor has a blog post on this in the boothiebarn site. There is a letter from Booth requesting copies of the photo which he describes sitting and holding a cane.

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Found Dave's blog post. It starts out with a quote from the letter I spoke of.

http://boothiebarn.com/2014/02/15/new-ga...otographs/