U.S. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission Office of the Research Director Records 1809-1965 (bulk 1960)

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U.S. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission Office of the Research Director Records 1809-1965 (bulk 1960)

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Correspondence, research notes, writings, bibliographies, reports, minutes, and other records relating primarily to the commission’s publication of compiled by William E. Baringer and C. Percy Powell under the editorship of Earl Schenck Miers. Also includes indexes relating to the commission’s bibliography project. Lincoln Day by Day

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Illinois. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission

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Commission appointed by Governor William G. Stratton to plan the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. From the description of Sesquicentennial miscellaneous, 1959. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 430538752 Commission appointed by Governor William Stratton for the purpose of planning and directing a year long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Newton Camp Farr was chairman of the 51 mem...

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Baringer, William E. (William Eldon), 1909-2000

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Historian, college professor, and author of various works on Abraham Lincoln; executive secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association (1943-1947) and executive director of the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission (1958-1960). From the description of Papers, 1932-1994. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 67617750 ...

Beale, Howard K. (Howard Kennedy), 1899-1959

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Monaghan, James, 1854-1949

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

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Powell, Charles Percy, 1899-1982

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Organizational History The Abraham Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission was established by a Joint Resolution of September 2, 1957 (71 Stat. 587) authorizing the establishment of the commission “in order to provide for appropriate and nation-wide observances and the coordination of ceremonies” to mark the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, composed of twenty-ei...

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