Images

The Assassination of President Lincoln, hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1865. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

The killing of Booth, the assassin: The dying murderer drawn from the barn where he had taken refuge, on Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, Va., April 26, 1865, illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1865. A depiction of the...

The Booth brothers, Winter Garden Theater, 25 November 1864. John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, and Junius Brutus Booth Jr. pose during a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. John Wilkes Booth (left) would assassinate US President Abraham...

Colorized portrait of John Wilkes Booth, the 19th century American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865, photograph by J.W. Black and John G. Case.

Portrait of American actor, and future assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth around the peak of his acting career, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks, c. 1862. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution...

Portrait of American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, c. 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Canal with a touristic trajineras, photography by Luis Bartolomé Marcos, Xochimilco in Mexico City, 05 November 2013. Flat-bottomed, vibrantly colored tourist boats known as trajineras pass by a chinampa, a man-made agricultural island...

Man preparing the soil to plant, photograph by Emmanuel Eslava, Mexico, 23 September 2015. A man prepares the land of a chinampa for sowing. The chinampa raised farming technique can be identified by the posts that separate the arable land...

Axolotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. An axolotl, which was described by the accompanying Spanish textual gloss as a meal fit for the nobility. Described...

Cintli, ink on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. A depiction of a maize plant, one of the staple crops of the Aztec peoples of Mexico. The image shows the structural details...