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| 1865 | North America - USA Alexander Gardner, 1865, 7 July, Execution of the Conspirators, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, | Lewis Powell (aka Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt are executed at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and attempting to assassinate Secretary of State Seward. Alexander Gardner documented the execution his photographs were published as wood engravings in Harper's Weekly on 22 July 1865. |