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Hanging rope fragment
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1840-1865
- Materials:
- cloth, paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 2 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.082.0044
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Three-dimensional Objects
Description
Yellowed and faded rectangle of lined paper with small portion of rope attached with a second smaller rectangle of lined paper. Visable hand written note on paper that has greatly faded. Note reads, "A portion of the rope with which Herold was hanged July 7, 1865." This is a piece of the rope used to hang one of Booth's fellow conspirators, David Edgar Herold, a few months after Lincoln's assassination. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum