Guide Virginia Cook Presenting the Abraham Lincoln Chair, Then on Exhibit in Greenfield Village, April 1955

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Artifact Overview

Henry Ford admired President Lincoln's humble, down-to-earth character and his embodiment of the ideals of the "self-made man." Ford collected many Lincoln-related artifacts, including the Logan County, Illinois, courthouse in which Lincoln had first practiced law and the chair in which Lincoln was assassinated. He housed his Lincoln collection inside the courthouse when it was re-erected in Greenfield Village.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

13 April 1955

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

N.B.9450

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.25 in
Width: 5.25 in