Flag that tripped Booth

[Ed Steers]

            The attached photograph is from the old Oldroyd collection when it was stored in the Lincoln Vault in Union Station. It was displayed for years in the Treasury building with a plaque that identified it as the flag that tripped Booth causing him to break his leg. The original flag wound up in the Park Service collection where it disintegrated into fragments and was disgarded. I photographed fragments of the flag along with pieces of the gold fringe before they were disgarded.