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Restoration of the Soldiers' Home
- Photographer
- Carol M. Highsmith
- Date of Work
- 2010
- Medium
- Photograph
- Credit
- The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress
Restoration of the Soldiers' Home
The piazza is returned to its earlier appearance, confirmed as being this way at least in the earliest part of Abraham Lincoln's occupancy by the photograph in Mary Lincoln's scrapbook and by a lithograph published in 1868.
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