Rare original partly-printed invitation card for the execution of assassin Charles Guiteau, who shot President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., on the morning of Saturday, July 2, 1881. Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey 79 days later on September 19, 1881. The card, 4.75 x 3, issued to “W. S. Larner” by the Wardens’ Office U.S. Jail of Washington, D.C., reads: “You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau, at this jail Friday, June 30th, 1882, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o’clock P.M.” Signed below in ink by Warden John S. Crocker, and the reverse annotated, “No Transferable, W.O.C.” In fine condition, with old mounting remnants on the reverse.
