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Wallpaper from President Lincoln's Box at Ford Theater, Washington DC:
This wallpaper, removed from the private box at Ford's Theater in which President Lincoln was sitting when he was shot, is part of the Mary Ann Booth Papers held by the Maryland Historical Society Library. Despite dying a murder, Wilkes remained beloved in the minds of his mother Mary Ann, and his sister, Asia. This scrap of wallpaper attests to their lingering obsession with a family member who became one of American history's most despised men. |