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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: March 18, 2008
Caption: The Petersen House
Additional Description: William A. Petersen was a tailor whose shop was on Pennsylvania Avenue. He and his wife Anna owned this house, constructed in 1849. They let out rooms to transients, including performers at Ford's Theater. One of these, John Wilkes Booth, may once have boarded in the room where Lincoln died.
Submitted: March 22, 2008, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p19361
File Size: 0.783 Megabytes

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