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Kunhardt and the deathbed photo
02-26-2015, 07:06 PM
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RE: Kunhardt and the deathbed photo
I asked that question and left for the office and just returned. Thanks to everyone who tried to help.
This is what I have in my 2009 notes, but I don't have the supporting documentation and can't recall what the "Lincoln newsletter" was:
According to the Lincoln newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 3, October 1981, the photo was taken by Julius Ulke, a Washington photographer boarding in the Petersen house at the time. In light of the fact that Secretary of War Stanton was confiscating prints and negatives of assassination-related scenes, Ulke kept his photograph secret, passing it down through his family. It was sold to Mrs. Dorothy Kunhardt in 1961 by a 93-year- old Ulke descendant, who parted with it in order to raise money for her church in England. Cost $ 3750.
I later found the descendant was a Mrs. Easter.
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