Assasination relics: Clothing, chairs, death-scene stuff, and other macabre items

[BettyO]

May I add Seward Museum, Auburn NY - blood stained and knife slashed bed sheet from Seward attack. Surratt House Museum - night shirt Davey Herald slept in;
handkerchief belonging to Anna Surratt; parlor table and writing desk which was in Mrs Surratt's H Street boarding house parlor. Two locks of John Wilkes Booth's hair - Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA; also door to the monitor Montauk - MOC, Richmond, VA. Various artifacts (dresser, cane, etc.) made by Edmund Spangler displayed at Dr. Samuel Mudd House; also artifacts made/owned by Dr. Samuel Mudd - including a cribbage board, his medical books and instruments as well as the sofa on which JWB lay when Dr. Mudd set his leg on April 15, 1865. Port Royal Museum, Port Royal, VA - brick from Garrett House Foundation; large metal hinges from tobacco barn in which JWB was shot. Death Warrent of Lewis Powell given to Dr. Abram Gillette July 7, 1865 - West Point Military Academy Museum, NY.

Private collections - piece of JWB crutch; cloth lining and key to Lewis Powell's coffin (final burial). Pieces of flooring and nails from Arsenal (Fort Leslie J. McNair) trial room; brick from Old Arsenal. Powell family photographs; Powell family bible; Lew Powell's mother's soup tureen and muffin tin, marble topped mahogany table which stood in Powell family parlor. Piece of lace headdress worn by Mary Lincoln to Ford's Theatre; original Ulke photograph of Lincoln's death bed....