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Description A playbill for Our American Cousin, the play Lincoln attended at Fords Theatre on the evening he was assassinated. The playbill was reproduced in various versions with added material beginning almost immediately follow the assassination, and as such, this may be an original from the night of the play, or an early souvenir reproduction.
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Source University of Delaware Library
Author H Polkinhorn & Son, Printers. D Street near 7th, Washington, D.C.
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Other versions http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/lincolnbicent/04_assass.html
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