Rewards and Wanted Posters
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Crime
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Crime / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1850-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Crime, Subseries 2.8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged in chronological order by date.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Reward and Wanted Posters are included in the oversize materials. Most are dated from 1875 and 1876. A number of the posters offer rewards for various responses, including information on capture and return of robbers, murderers, runaway slaves, escaped prisoners, thieves, lost objects, and prisoners of war. There is also a copy of the wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth reprinted in the April 1896 issue of Century Magazine. Victor Louis Mason, of the U. S. War Department, describes the various conspiracies against the life of Abraham Lincoln. Most of the posters have duplicates and negative numbers. (See photographic reference prints in the Archives Center).