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Relic from Lincoln's Death
These bits of hair, wood, and bandage are examples of "Lincolniana" relics. After President Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, the public yearned for physical items associated with the martyred president. Mourners and souvenir hunters tore pieces of carpet and wallpaper from the presidential box where John Wilkes Booth ambushed the president.
Abraham Lincoln's hair, wood from Ford's Theater, and bandage fragments from Lincoln's death room at the Peterson House, April 14 and 15, 1865 |