The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot at Ford's Theatre, Photographed in Henry Ford Museum Theater, April 1958

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Artifact Overview

Irwin J. Clark made this hand-colored Tintype in April 1958. Clark was the Greenfield Village Tintypist from 1956 to 1968. It shows the Lincoln Chair on the theater stage of Henry Ford Museum. The Tintype was produced in preparation for a 1959 program commemorating the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth in 1809.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Tintype (Photograph)

Subject Date

April 1958

Creator Notes

Made by Greenfield Village Tintypist Irwin J. Clark.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

EI.173.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Metal

Technique

Tintype (Process)
Hand coloring

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 6.875 in
Width: 4.5 in

The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot at Ford's Theatre, Photographed in Henry Ford Museum Theater, April 1958