Bills for grand inauguration, 1865.

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Bills for grand inauguration, 1865.

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21 bills for goods or services purchased for the ball. Examples include bill for wine, champagne and other beverages from "Koehler and Adams"and Wm. Bryan, "eleven dressing maids", 3 boxes white cotton gloves, lamps and oil from Henry Bayley, advertising, "three men for scrubbing and waxing the ballroom and supper room", ladies' combs and hairpins, and others. Includes two newspaper clippings re: selling of tickets to the ball and listing the different committees and the members of the committees.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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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...