Mary Todd Lincoln's cape
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1865
- Description
Evening cape of black velvet, full length and circular with fitted shoulders. Narrow black and white silk cord around neck forms ties and ends of cord are finished with large black and white tassels. Black silk lace medallion on either side of front of cape. Lined with black quilted silk.
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Outerwear
Capes (outerwear)
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
Assassinations
Presidents - Location
- United States
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Velvet (fabric weave)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2016, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Mary Todd Lincoln's cape. 1865. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2127. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1865) Mary Todd Lincoln's cape. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2127
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2127>.