D.C. and Harrisburg Trip, Day 2

Ford's Theater & the Peterson House:

Theater

Presidential Box 

Peterson Boarding House

Smithsonian Museum of American History:
(Where, naturally I made a beeline for textiles, and HBC stuff).

Red River Cart

Album Quilt!

Mary Lincoln's fabulous purple velvet
that-one-time-contrasting-piping-is-used
dress.  I couldn't get close enough to see it if's
sent into the seams or applied on top (like
the one in Patterns of Fashion).