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$100,000 Reward!
Six days after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the U.S. War Department printed this broadside. It offers rewards for John Wilkes Booth and also John H. Surratt and David C. Herold, whose names are misspelled beneath their photos. Real photographs were rarely used on posters because of limitations in printing technology, and their use here highlights the severity of the crime and the importance of the reward. |