Keckley

"" Something about the air conditioning being out, '' Keckley recalls.

Tales From The Sardine Run 2008

Keckley beat him -- and he had every seat to himself.

Tales From The Sardine Run 2008

Wanting to see what he was reading, Keckley pretended she had dropped something and went behind where Lincoln was sitting so that she could look over his shoulder.

Lincoln's Great Depression 2005

Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Lincoln's dressmaker, once told of watching the president drag himself into the room where she was fitting the First Lady.

Lincoln's Great Depression 2005

Wanting to see what he was reading, Keckley pretended she had dropped something and went behind where Lincoln was sitting so that she could look over his shoulder.

Lincoln's Great Depression 2005

Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Lincoln's dressmaker, once told of watching the president drag himself into the room where she was fitting the First Lady.

Lincoln's Great Depression 2005

"His step was slow and heavy, and his face sad," Keckley recalled.

Lincoln's Great Depression 2005

"His step was slow and heavy, and his face sad," Keckley recalled.

Lincoln's Great Depression 2005

In the summer of 1862 Mrs. Keckley had been instrumental in organizing the Contraband Relief Organization, to assist the thousands of African-Americans who had fled from the slaveholding states to Washington and other cities in the North.

LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001

In the summer of 1862 Mrs. Keckley had been instrumental in organizing the Contraband Relief Organization, to assist the thousands of African-Americans who had fled from the slaveholding states to Washington and other cities in the North.

LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001