Box 13

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Frederick L. Black papers contain the documents Black collected during his investigation and research into claims that John Wilkes Booth had avoided capture, especially his thorough investigation of the book "The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth" by Finis Bates (1907). Black assembled these materials in the 1920s and 1930s although some are more recent and may have been added later by William Springer, who took over Black's papers.The original order in which the...

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Black and white prints, 3 1/4" x 4 3/4", numbered 1-94, documenting the sites of Booth's escape route and the sites visited by Black during his investigation of the fake Boothes.