Fragment of linen shirt worn by President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States until his assassination on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth. The shirt is part of a collage of material relating to John C. Weaver, a Civil War veteran from Philadelphia. The collage includes the cloth fragment, a photograph, two newspaper clippings, a document and annotations. The annotations read as follows: Top, “notice folds and pin marks…father always carried piece of shirt securely fastened.” Left, “Piece of A. Lincoln’s shirt worm at time of assination [sic].” Right, “This is the room where A. Lincoln died. Directly opposite from where I stand with fathers [sic] framed credentials was the place where the bed stood. Notice the many photographs of A. Lincoln.”
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