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Title	J. Wilkes Booth.
Description	Portrait of left profile of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing hair parted at the side, a handlebar mustache, and a dark suit jacket. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. He died April 26, 1865 after being captured by Union soldiers. John Wilkes Booth never appeared at Macauley's, having died eight years before the theatre opened, but his brothers Edwin and Junius made a combined total of eight visits there in the 1870s and 1880s. Annotation on mount verso, center: J. W. B. Then hide him away from the sad eye of day, 'neathe a coral of sea green abisses - Where the mermaids so gay as they sport 'neathe the spray may purple his pale lips with kisses.
Subject	Portraits Portrait photographs Actors Men
People Pictured	Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Date Original	1860? - 1865?
Object Type	Albumen prints Silver printing-out paper prints Cartes de visite
Source	10 x 6.2 cm. b&w albumen print. Item no. ULPA 1980.20.0009 in the Macauley's Theatre Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Citation Information	See http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/macauley#conditions for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection	Macauley's Theatre Collection
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/macauley/
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Format	image/jpeg
Ordering Information	To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://louisville.edu/library/archives/copying.html/. Please cite the Image Number when ordering.
Language	eng
Image Number	ULPA 1980.20.0009
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