The “rubber box” or did Laura Keene indeed held Lincoln’s head?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thanks, Roger. Graf Henneke's (I bet his ancestors came from Schleswig-Holstein) biography was published in 1990, so it's just sure the clipping dates back earlier than this...

I assume you don't know when Emerson stated the " handsome yellow satin dress"?

The point is that most likely for the witnesses anything Lincoln was more important than the color of Laura Keene's dress. On the other hand I really find the floral design too eye-catching to leave out WHEN mentioning the color at all (well, both eyewitnesses of the dress color were men...)

Usually actors would wear the same dress/costume for all performances of the respective production. I wonder if Laura Keene did?

As for the magically-expanding rubber box - Maj. Rathbone testified that "several persons...were allowed to enter". How many persons could be considered "several"?