Records, 1958-1959.

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Records, 1958-1959.

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Approx. 600 items including press releases, record of ticket sales, invitations, place cards, musical programs, seating charts, minutes of commission meetings, business calling cards, check stubs, diplomatic and mailing lists, newspaper clippings, Illinois State Armory auditorium floor plans, and related correspondence. Includes responses from many world diplomats including several from Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Germany and principal speaker the banquet.

.63 linear feet (1 1/2 boxes)

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7753890

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Illinois. Armory.

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Brandt, Willy, 1913-1992

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Farr, Newton C. (Newton Camp), 1887-1967

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Life long Chicago resident, real estate developer and past president of the Illinois State Historical Society. His father, Marvin Farr owned a successful real estate agency in Chicago. His mother, Charlotte Camp Farr, was the daugher of L.N. Camp, co-founder of Este & Camp, a piano and organ manufacturing company. His sister, Barbara, wrote childrens stories and her two children started the Clean Plate Club during WWII. From the description of Papers, 1854-1964. (Abraham Lincoln ...

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...

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...