Washington, D.C. Photo - Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

Peterson House where Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Threatre. The house is located directly across from Ford's Theatre. It was a boarding house owned by William Peterson. He was alive when carried into the house, but died hours later in the back room.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.