r/HistoryOf_Photography

Girl on a Swing

Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Yours Truly / J. Wilkes Booth," half-length portrait by Case & Getchell, showing him seated in ¾ view with fist resting on his hip and holding a cane [in Boston, 1862]. Inscribed in the image at upper edge (with side and upper extremes continuing onto the mount). 3¾x2 inches (image), 4x2½ inches overall; faint soiling to edges recto, slight horizontal crease at middle (without loss to emulsion), remnants of mounting at upper and lower edges verso, photographer's imprint on the mount at lower edge and on verso, rich image and bold signature; in double-sided frame.

Lightning over Surtsey. Electrical charges are set up by the propulsion of large masses of loose material into the atmosphere, and these discharge themselves as lightning, with thunder. The more heavily dust-laden the cloud, the more violent the electrical discharge.