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Description	The chair used by Abraham Lincoln the day of his speech to the Cooper Union (1860). It was later displayed on stage in the Great Hall of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. The Cooper Union Museum was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution July 1, 1968, and was renamed the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design. The chair is shown before it was reupholstered in 1949.
Date	Taken on 27 May 2012
Source	http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_5793
Author	Unknown authorUnknown author

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