[Facsimile of special issue of the New York Herald for Saturday April 15, 1865 announcing the assassination of President Lincoln]
Dr. Archambault Co.
[Boston, Mass. : Dr. Archambaut Co.,
1895?]
One of a number of reprints of text originally published in the New York Herald, vol. 30, no. 104 (with front page nameplate: "The New York Herald. Whole no. 10456. New York, Saturday, April 15, 1865"). Column 1 headed "Important. Assassination of the president"; column 4 headed "Extra 8:10 a.m. ... Death of the president". In this and similar reprints, the whole number is given incorrectly as 10459, and page 1 includes a portrait of Lincoln not found in the original.
Contents of pages [1 ]and [4] as for April 15, 1865; all but the first column and a half of page 2 and all of page 3 contain advertisements for various patent medicines sold by the Dr. Archambault Company, Boston, Mass., with testimonials dated from 1893-1895, the latest one dated 30 March.  Noted under "Advertiser's schemes" in Fame: a journal for advertisers, September 1897, page 289 (referring to a later iteration of this facsimile): "The Dr. Archambault Company, of Boston, issues an advertising sheet with the outside a fac-simile of the New York Herald that chronicled the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The idea is clever, and many hundred copies of the 'souvenir' are likely to be preserved."
Printed on wood pulp paper.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865