Lincoln Memorial Veneration

Below memorial, graffiti may show racy screen star

Lincoln Memorial is hiding a sexy secret in its graffiti: ‘Extremely well executed’

Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in the 1980s, noting “some that were extremely well executed.”

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Lincoln’s secret: Below the memorial, graffiti may show racy screen star

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.”

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Beneath Lincoln Memorial, 'Sexy' Century-Old Graffiti

Forty-five feet below the Lincoln Memorial is art of a very different kind. On the pillars in the memorial's basement, where a visitor center is now under construction, is graffiti left behind by the workers who built the memorial to Abraham Lincoln more than a century ago.

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Century-old graffiti under Lincoln Memorial may depict silent-film star Theda Bara

A profile sketch of a woman with curly hair, dark makeup, and smoking a cigarette scrawled on concrete in the undercroft of ...

The ‘bonus features’ of DC’s Lincoln Memorial that not even longtime residents might know

In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax tracks down the hidden features around the Lincoln Memorial.

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The second inaugural we need was delivered 160 years ago

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to ...

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Lincoln Memorial

You'll still contend with crowds, but it will be worth it. – Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Although the Lincoln Memorial is just one of the District's many monuments, the larger-than-life Honest ...

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