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Harper’s Weekly Invites Its Readers Inside the White House 9
This “rejected stone” was taken from the tomb of Servius Tullius and given by Italy to the White House in honor of President Abraham Lincoln. Although it failed to find a proper home in the White House, it was incorporated into Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield, Illinois.
- Date of Work
- February 6, 1869
- Medium
- Newspaper
- Credit
- Hathitrust, Harper's Weekly