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.
Collection Title
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
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