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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 10-29-2013 05:27 AM

Hint#1: She didn't have to do with the EP directly, but with something that has to do with the EP.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-29-2013 07:29 AM

I know Lincoln worked on the document at the Soldiers’ Home. Was she employed there?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 10-29-2013 07:55 AM

Wonderful guess, Roger, but she wasn't.

Hint#2:
(10-29-2013 05:27 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  ...something that has to do with the EP.
..."has" means it still exists.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 10-29-2013 09:00 AM

Hint#3: It happened in 1877.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 10-29-2013 10:38 AM

Hint#4: It cost her $25,000.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 10-29-2013 11:43 AM

She bought the pen it was written with?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 10-29-2013 11:58 AM

Good guess, Joe, but the item is MUCH bigger. Ok, I'Lo try one more hint:

Hint#5: A. Lincoln had it in the East Room, later (before 1877) it toured the country. So, what was it and what did Elizabeth Thompson do with it?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 10-29-2013 12:05 PM

How about the desk it was written on?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 10-29-2013 03:22 PM

I cheated. It was Francis Carpenter's painting of Lincoln and his cabinet with the EP. I'm German, so we'll take the point, Eva. (Trans Atlantic high five!)

Germans 1 Rebels 1


RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 10-29-2013 03:45 PM

When did we get the scores lowered to 1 & 1? I thought we previously had run up something like Rebels 13 - Beckert 8 or 9!


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 10-29-2013 04:03 PM

(10-29-2013 03:22 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  I cheated.

Does that answer your question?
Smile


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 10-29-2013 04:16 PM

Joe, kudos, you are right! The item is Carpenter's "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln". As for what she did with it - she donated it to Congress.

Carpenter, with the help of William O. Stoddard, campaigned for Congress to purchase the painting, but Congress did not appropriate the money. So it remained in Carpenter’s possession until 1877, when Elizabeth Thompson purchased it.
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RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 10-29-2013 08:28 PM

(10-29-2013 03:45 PM)L Verge Wrote:  When did we get the scores lowered to 1 & 1? I thought we previously had run up something like Rebels 13 - Beckert 8 or 9!

That's a whole different mess. Folks don't seem so eager to beat the stuffing out of Eva like they do me, so I'm gonna hang with her awhile.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-30-2013 08:29 AM

Something of note happened in this building. Where was it located, and what was the event?

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RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 10-30-2013 10:31 AM

Did it house Parr's China Shop? I believe Surratt met Powell there. It was located in Baltimore.