![]() ![]() ![]() Name Pronunciation with Russell Freedman. 15 Total Resources 3 Awards View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. Frugal Abe wore rickety reading glasses while, in contrast, extravagant Mary had a collection of 300 pairs of gloves. A cogent narrative and nearly 100 photographs document the life of Abraham Lincoln. Here’s a close-up of Lincoln’s reading glasses, broken at the left hinge and mended with a bit of string. ![]() Though only everyday items, the contents of Lincoln’s pockets are among the items visitors to the Library most often ask to see. These artifacts were put on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C, in 1976, the year of our nation’s 200th birthday and are still on view today. ![]() It contained a Confederate five-dollar bill bearing the likeness of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and 8 newspaper clippings Lincoln had cut out and saved. All of the clippings praised him. (2) a brown leather wallet lined with purple silk.an ivory pocketknife trimmed with silver,.a small velvet eyeglass cleaner (I can’t find above),.a pair of small spectacles folded into a silver case,.The night Lincoln was murdered at Ford’s Theatre, he was carrying: Lincoln assassination artifacts: contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was murdered (left) and copy of a newspaper announcing the assassination (right) ![]()
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