The latest issue of Town Topics, Princeton’s weekly community newspaper, highlights a recently discovered “Wanted Poster” for John Wilkes Booth following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln:
“Lincoln Assassination ‘Wanted Poster’ Discovered at Princeton University Library”
The broadside was discovered while researching items for the upcoming exhibition “A Republic in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History From Jamestown to Appomattox.” The exhibition, opening in the Main Gallery of the Firestone Library on Friday, Feb. 22, features nearly 100 of the library’s finest holdings of American historical manuscripts, autograph letters, rare books, maps, photographs and other materials from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and Scheide Library. Several items from Princeton’s collections will be on display for the first time.
