Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
A quilt said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley from scraps of Mary Todd Lincoln's dresses.
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- Kent State University Museum
A quilt said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley from scraps of Mary Todd Lincoln's dresses.
A quilt said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley from scraps of Mary Todd Lincoln's dresses.
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