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Online exhibition about Lincoln assassination



houser@OCLC.ORG wrote:

Is it likely there is some 'evidence' of the assassination on the dress,
making display of the item somewhat insensitive, verging on tabloid-esque?

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It might depend on how the evidence is displayed or explained. For a well-done, sensitively handled online exhibition on a parallel subject, about the testing of blood stains on a shawl that Mary Todd Lincoln allegedly wore at Ford's Theater, see this by the Chicago Historical Society: 

http://www.chicagohistory.org/wetwithblood/index.htm 
"Wet With Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak"

--Diane Shaw



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Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Washington, D.C. 20560
Phone: (202) 357-3161
Fax: (202) 786-2866
Email: shawd@sil.si.edu
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