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Relic from Lincoln's Death
A shred of wallpaper taken from Ford's Theater is an example of a "Lincolniana" relic. 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. |