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ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY

Figure 20.—Hermann Faber, whose sketch of the Lincoln deathbed scene gives some idea of the throng in attendance.

The pictorial resources of the Museum were also called upon in the search for the President's assassin and his accomplices. "During the month of April," says a report of 1 July 1865 from Dr. Otis to The Surgeon General, "there were printed 1,500 photographs of the assassins of the President, for the assistance of the officers of justice."[1] Presumably, these photographic prints were used to illustrate the reward posters of the War Department, dated 20 April 1865. This

  1. Lamb, op. cit., p. 35.