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![Mathew Brady:
Abraham Lincoln sat for an official portrait by society photographer Mathew Brady at Brady's Pennsylvania Avenue studio, located between Sixth and Seventh streets. Brady went on to oversee the documentation of one of the biggest stories of the 19th century; the U.S. Civil War, paving the way for modern photojournalism. Brady fell into debt after the war and was seriously injured by a horse-drawn streetcar on Pennsylvania Avenue. He died in poverty in 1896.
From a Washington Evening Star report about Brady's photograph of Lincoln: "Some of the ladies say he is almost good-looking."
First lady Mary Todd Lincoln was criticized for overspending. This invoice (above) from a Pennsylvania Avenue store shows goods and services [costing $1,000] that she bought for the White House.
"I can get a decent office on 14th Street in the 'row' exclusive for $30 pr month."
-- Boston Journal correspondent Ben: Perley Poore](/Graphlib/GraphData13.nsf/Images/2013_DC_NewseumV_0160/$File/NEWSV_130512_056.JPG) |
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![John Wilkes Booth:
Actor John Wilkes Booth hated Abraham Lincoln and longed to avenge the Confederate cause. In April 1865, Booth took a room at the National Hotel, which was his favorite place to stay in Washington. On the evening of April 14, Booth shot and mortally wounded President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, several blocks away. While Lincoln lay dying, investigators searched Booth's room at the National Hotel and found a letter that seemed to connect him to a plot against the president. Booth died in a shootout with federal agents 12 days after the assassination.
From the testimony of G.W. Bunker, clerk of the National Hotel:
Q: Had [Booth] a room there at the time the President was assassinated?
A: He did.
From a letter Booth's brother wrote to President Andrew Johnson in 1869:
"There is also (I am told) a trunk of his at the National Hotel... it may contain relics of the poor misguided boy--which would be dear to his sorrowing mother, and of no use to anyone."
President Lincoln's Funeral Procession:
1865. Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Black mourning cloth was draped on Pennsylvania Avenue's buildings on April 19, 1865, and his body was escorted down the avenue by a large procession.
Grand Review of the Armies:
1865. Called the greatest parade ever held on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Army of the Potomac (the largest of the Union armies) marched down the avenue on May 23 and 24, 1865, to celebrate the end of the Civil War.](/Graphlib/GraphData13.nsf/Images/2013_DC_NewseumV_0160/$File/NEWSV_130512_074.JPG) |
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