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Three sketches of Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett published in Scribner's July 1929 issue. Corbett was the Union Army soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett, who homesteaded near Concordia, Kansas in the late 1870s, was hired as a doorkeeper for the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas. On February 15, 1887, while performing his doorkeeper duties, Corbett pulled a pistol and unofficially adjourned the House. He was disarmed by local police, declared insane, and committed to the State Insane Asylum in Topeka. He escaped a year later.
Creator: Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955
Date: July 1929
Item Number: 308367
Call Number: B Corbett, Boston *7-9
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 308367
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s - 1929
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Drawing
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art
People - Notable Kansans - Corbett, Boston, b. 1832
People - Notable Kansans - Reid, Albert T.
Type of Material - Art objects - Original art - Drawings
Type of Material - Illustrations
Type of Material - Photographs
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