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Carriage at The Dr. Mudd House Museum in Waldorf, Maryland

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The assassinaton of Abraham Lincoln turned Dr. Mudd's mid-19th-century farmhouse into a historic site, when presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth sought medical treatment here on his escape route into Virginia.

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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01/01/2017
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charles county
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Library of Congress
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