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Lincoln Kaleidoscope
Mary Todd Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln’s wife called herself “Mary Lincoln,” not “Mary Todd Lincoln.”
Mary Lincoln was both admired and criticized for her fashionable attire as First Lady.
This black silk dress was trimmed with white lace, purple and green ribbon, and embroidered leaves and berries in green, red, white, and purple.
- Relationship: Mary was at Ford’s Theatre when Lincoln was assassinated
- Relationship: Mary’s personal possession, used at the Theatre
- Relationship: Mary’s possession, First Lady duties/ entertainments
- Relationship: Mary’s photograph, personal memento
- Relationship: Lincoln’s wife, personal memento
- Relationship: Mary’s photograph, mourning for Lincoln
- Relationship: Lincoln’s assassination/ death
- Relationship: Son
- Relationship: Son