Guide Virginia Cook Presenting the Abraham Lincoln Chair, Then on Exhibit in Greenfield Village, April 1955
THF121753a / Guide Virginia Cook Presenting the Abraham Lincoln Chair, Then on Exhibit in Greenfield Village, April 1955 / detail
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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
Collection Title
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
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