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First printing Assassination Broadside offered
04-04-2024, 06:17 PM
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First printing Assassination Broadside offered
https://historical.ha.com/itm/political/...ail-071515

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04-05-2024, 01:10 PM
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RE: First printing Assassination Broadside offered
In an interesting and apparent oversight by Stanton or the printer, Booth's name does not appear until the physical descriptions on the bottom of the page and than only by his surname. Even if I had the $$ I'm not sure I would pay a huge sum for a poster in which Booth's full name is not boldly and prominently mentioned.
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04-05-2024, 03:02 PM (This post was last modified: 04-05-2024 03:04 PM by J. Beckert.)
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RE: First printing Assassination Broadside offered
(04-05-2024 01:10 PM)Dennis Urban Wrote:  In an interesting and apparent oversight by Stanton or the printer, Booth's name does not appear until the physical descriptions on the bottom of the page and than only by his surname. Even if I had the $$ I'm not sure I would pay a huge sum for a poster in which Booth's full name is not boldly and prominently mentioned.

It's in the description of Surratt and Herold calling them "Booth's accomplices". Maybe they omitted it at the top because they believed it was common knowledge 6 days later? Either way, I agree on this piece. I'd much rather have one of the broadsides with the pictures. Of which few survive with all the pictures intact.

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