Carrying Lincoln to the Petersen House

[Jim Garrett]

The collection of items in the FOTH (FOrd's THeatre) collection of the NPS numbers over 14,000 items. Unfortunately, it collection is not on a single database and only a few people in the NPS are really adept at finding items in the collection that may be somewhat on the on=bscure side. As Dave Taylor will attest, you can inquire about an artifact, and if you are fortunate, you will get a response in a few days.......or a few weeks. In some cases, they can verify that an artifact is in the collection, but they may or may not be able to find it, such as a CDV Dave asked about a couple of years ago.

The FOTH collection has everything from Booth's Derringer to sneakers with Abraham Lincoln's image on them.