Collection Highlights
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
Date:
1880
Object Number:
LIB.Y1808.W
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Flowers and leaves from Lincoln's casket
Object Number:
2008.42.410
Date:
1865
Medium:
Plant material, paper
Dimensions:
largest: 188.7mm (7 7/16 in.)
Description:
Six envelopes of dried pressed leaves and flowers from Abraham Lincoln's casket; various paper wrappers that originally housed the fragments.
Gallery Label:
These may have originated in the collections of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln during the Civil War.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Naval History Society, 1925
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
