Donation of Treasury Flag and Lithograph

In 1959, Addison Reese (left), the great-grandson of the 1865 owner of Ford's Theatre, John T. Ford, donated several original artifacts from President Abraham Lincoln's box that had long been in his family: the lithograph portrait of George Washington and the sofa upon which Major Henry Rathbone had sat the night of the assassination of Lincoln. Note the arrows showing the nick on the portrait of Washington and the tear said to have been made in the Treasury flag (given to the Lincoln Museum at Ford's Theatre in 1932) by John Wilkes Booth's spur when he jumped to the stage after he fatally shot Lincoln.