Carl Sandburg Home Collection, 1841-1982.

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Carl Sandburg Home Collection, 1841-1982.

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Material transferred by Illinois Historic Preservation Agency from the Carl Sandburg Home, Galesburg to the Illinois State Historical Library (now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library), Springfield, in 1988. The Carl Sandburg Home Collection includes a scrapbook of newspaper clippings by or about Carl Sandburg; folders of pamphlets, periodicals and articles about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War or Carl Sandburg; 3 small prints of Abraham Lincoln; and a folder of printed items and collectibles with a Lincoln theme.

3 boxes (1.1 linear ft.)

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American author, editor and poet. He won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. From the guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection, 1924-1954, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) American poet, novelist and historian, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Abraham Lincoln: the War Years and the other for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg ...

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...