Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Lantern Slide - Assassination of Lincoln
1895-1925
A. D. Handy Stereopticons and Supplies
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Glass
overall: 3-3/16"h x 4"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Anne R. Berntsen
2008.023.27

Lantern slide in color. Image shows Abraham Lincoln, two women and a man in Union Army uniform with sword, sitting in a theater box. Two American flags flank the opening of the box. A man in black stands behind Lincoln and points a gun at the back of his head. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "11 - Assassination of Lincoln." A label printed in red applied to the other end of the slide reads, "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, Boston."