Caption:
Lewis Powell, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Also known as Lewis Payne, Powell (1844-1865) was one of four people hanged for their involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He attempted, unsuccessfully, to assassinate US Secretary of State William H Seward. Powell is pictured in irons on board the warship USS 'Saugus', where he was incarcerated after his capture. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.