Thank You to Richard Sloan!

[RJNorton]

Richard Sloan sent a couple of photos of the old Ford's Theatre Lincoln Museum which he took with an Ansco box camera in 1957.

Richard writes, "The pillar marks the spot (accord. to a sign mounted on it) where Booth landed on the stage. That the left hand case contains the conspirators' weapons, and the right hand one has Booth's effects, the gun, diary, spur, boot compass, etc; and the theatre's gaslight mechanism (dials). I think that's the case for "Mrs. Lincoln's" opera glasses. Also the pistols Booth had on him at Garrett's and, I think, their cases. Note the door to the box with the fire extinguishing hose behind it. People could peer through the hole, which was so neat. (I have another clearer photo of that door in this setting, as well as the tracing on the floor of Booth's footsteps, made from a template that was made from the boot. Those footprints went across the stage. Cleverly, every other one was flipped around so that they appeared to be left footprint, right footprint, left, etc; I can't locate the snapshot I took of one of the footprints that were etched into the wooden floor. I took a third photo of these displays, but I can't locate that one, either."

Richard closes his message by asking if anyone has better pictures of the scene PLEASE POST!

Thank you, Richard!

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