The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot at Ford's Theatre, on Exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, June 2007
THF51752 / The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot at Ford's Theatre, on Exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, June 2007 / Photographed by Michelle Andonian
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Artifact Overview
President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this rocking chair during a production of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Henry Ford purchased the chair in 1929 for the Museum, where it remains one of the most revered objects associated with the "man who saved the Union."
Artifact Details
Artifact
Digital photograph
Date Made
June 2007
Subject Date
June 2007
Creators
Creator Notes
Photographed by Michelle Andonian.
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2008.171.1237
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
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