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Maggie Mitchell
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Maggie Mitchell CDV of the American actress, fellow performer, friend, and possibly lover of John Wilkes Booth. Booth reportedly had photographs of five women in his pocket when he was killed; some reports say that it was really 6 photographs and that the sixth one was of Maggie Mitchell. Abraham Lincoln saw and admired her performances, despite her openly secessionist sympathies. Slightly trimmed top and bottom. Back marked C.D. Fredericks, New York.

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