Mounted albumen photograph 3-1/2” x 10-1/2”, with printed caption “ "FAC-SIMILE PLAY-BILL ON THE EVENING OF THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN", 1890. A photograph of the playbill from the evening of President Lincoln's assassination. Printed on verso, "I hereby certify that I was Door-keeper on the evening of the assassination of President Lincoln, and that this is a Fac-Similie of the Programme [signed] J. E. Buckingham." Additionally, there is a pencil notation on the verso indicates it was part of the Ed Emerson Collection. Emerson acquired many of his items from A. E. Fostell, a vaudevillian who maintained a travelling exhibit of Lincolniana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Comes with the original envelope.