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Detail of Lincoln's Great Coat

1865

Ford's Theatre

Ford's Theatre
Washington, D.C., United States

Abraham Lincoln’s great coat had “One Country, One Destiny,” a quotation from New Hampshire senator Daniel Webster, stitched into the inner lining. The words are contained within a banner held by an eagle. Decades of displaying the coat open to light have weakened the fibers of the delicate silk lining, so this is a rare glimpse of a fragile artifact.

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