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Guide to the Abraham Lincoln Collection (Historical Collection) - Series I-III
 

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Accession Number: HC 28
Abraham Lincoln Collection
17 linear feet
26 Boxes (17 manuscript boxes, 9 oversize boxes)

Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview
Series Description
Series I - Life of Lincoln
Series II - Memorials and Tributes
Series III - Pamphlets and Speeches
Series IV - Lincoln Industry
Series V - Memorabilia and Artifacts
Series VI - Newspapers and Clippings

Access and Use

Provenance: This is an artificial collection created from multiple donations given by a number of contributors. It exists as a companion to and an extension of the Shedd/Schwarzschild Abraham Lincoln Book Collection. The collection opened for research in the summer of 1993.

Access: There are no restrictions on the collection other than federal copyright regulations.

Preferred Citation: The Abraham Lincoln Collection, Historical Collections, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.

Overview

The contents of the Abraham Lincoln Collection vary greatly and represent the historical and the ephemeral. Items contained herein elucidate his personal life and work before and during his presidency (early life, politics, and the Civil War). Materials include pamphlets of commemoration, information regarding various memorials and tributes erected and established in his honor, a section regarding the industry and culture built around the collecting of Lincoln memorabilia, as well as images, artifacts, and souvenir items. The collection includes documentation of Shedd's book collecting.

Box Lists - Series I-III

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Series I Life of Lincoln Boxes 1-3

General information concerning the life of Abraham Lincoln, including early life, family, politics, and speeches.

Box 1

  1. Early life
  2. Facsimile Letter: Lincoln to Dr. A.G. Henry
  3. Family
  4. Mary Todd/ Ann Rutledge
  5. Election/ Inauguration
  6. Statesman
  7. Politics
  8. War Years
  9. Assassination I
  10. Assassination II
  11. "The Todd Letter"

Box 2

  1. Religion
  2. "Religion and Romance"
  3. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  4. Miscellaneous speeches/ Presentations of Lincoln
  5. Bixby letter and information concerning
  6. Gettysburg address and information concerning
  7. Letter: Lincoln to Wm. Dickson, 26 July 1857

Box 3

  1. Biographies
  2. Reminiscences
  3. Miscellaneous Presidential
  4. Miscellaneous General I
  5. Miscellaneous General II

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Series II Memorials and Tributes Boxes 4-6

Miscellaneous information concerning memorials and tributes established in honor of Abraham Lincoln at various institutions, including associations, universities, and speeches.

Box 4

  1. Statues of Lincoln-pictures
  2. Busts of Lincoln
  3. Miscellaneous Sculpture-pictures
  4. Written Tributes
  5. Plays Based on Lincoln
  6. Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. I
  7. Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. II
  8. House of Representatives resolutions
  9. Illinois Memorial Parks
  10. Hodgenville, KY
  11. Nancy Hanks Lincoln State Memorial
  12. Mary Todd House- Lexington
  13. New England Memories
  14. Lincoln Room-Berea College (negative)

Box 5

  1. Brown University
  2. Columbia University
  3. Lincoln Memorial University
  4. LMU Alumnus
  5. LMU Bibliography
  6. Lincoln Institute of Kentucky
  7. Indiana University Lincoln Collection
  8. Illinois State Historical Library
  9. Upsala State College
  10. Abraham Lincoln Association
  11. Dept. of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic
  12. Civil War Round Table
  13. Young Men's Lincoln Club
  14. Miscellaneous Associations
  15. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commemorative Stamp 1959
  16. 1938 Blue and Gray Reunion Pamphlet

Box 5b

Microfiche of items at LMU

Box 6

  1. Miscellaneous Pictures of Lincoln
  2. Lincoln Calendars
  3. Information regarding Eastman Johnson's "The Boy Lincoln"
  4. Letters: Pres. Wm. G. Frost from Martin L. D'Oage
  5. Eastman Johnson's Picture
  6. Lincoln-Douglass Debates, Vol. II

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Series III Pamphlets and Speeches Boxes 7-12

Box 7

  1. Abbot, Lyman. Lincoln as a Labor Leader (1909)
  2. Allen, Lyman Whitney. The Lincoln Pew (n.d.)
  3. Ames, Charles Gordon. Abraham Lincoln: How He Made the Most of Himself (1908)
  4. Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman. The Counsel Assigned (1939)
  5. Andrews, William E. Lincoln and the Boys in Blue (1920)
  6. Appleman, Ray Edgar. Abraham Lincoln: His Own Words... (1954)
  7. Badger, Henry C. The Humble Conqueror (1865)
  8. Baker, David Charles. Lincoln V. Liquer (1908)
  9. Baker, Jean H. "Not Much of Me" Abraham Lincoln as a Typical American (1988)
  10. Barton, Robert. Lincoln The Grocer (1937)
  11. Barton, Fred B. Robert S. Barton Memorial (1954)
  12. Barton, William E. The Education of Abraham Lincoln (1923)
  13. Barton, William E. The Influence of Illinois in the Development of Abraham Lincoln (1921)
  14. Barton, William E. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln (1928)
  15. Barton, William E. A Beautiful Blunder (Prosepectus) (n.d.)
  16. Barton, William E. Harding, Lincoln, Two Memorial Addresses (1923)
  17. Barton, William E. Abraham Lincoln: An Address (1920)
  18. Barton, William E. The Lincoln's in Their Old Kentucky Home (1922)
  19. Barton, William E. The Man who Married Lincoln's Parents (1922)
  20. Barton, William E. The Parents of Abraham Lincoln (1922)
  21. Balser, Roy P. Abraham Lincoln -Artist (1938)
  22. Balser, Roy P. Who wrote the "Letter to Mrs. Bixby" (1943)
  23. Black, Frank S. Abraham Lincoln (n.d.)
  24. Borrit, Gabor S. Abraham Lincoln: War Opponent, War President (1987)
  25. Bowers, Claude. An Iconoclast's View of Lincoln. (1931)
  26. Brooks, Noah. The Close of Lincoln's Career (1895)
  27. Bulland, F. Lauriston. The Other Lincoln (1941)
  28. Bulland, F. Lauriston. What Andrew Boyd and Charles Henry Hart Did for Abraham Lincoln (1944)
  29. Cameron, W. J. Lincoln (1911)
  30. Carman, L.D. Abraham Lincoln: Freemason (1914)
  31. Chiperfield, Burnett M. Abraham Lincoln (1932)
  32. Choate, Joseph H. The Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln (1900)
  33. Cole, Wilson Giffin. The Leadership of Lincoln (1934)
  34. Cole, Arthur Charles. Lincoln's "House Divided"Speech (1923)
  35. Coleman, J. Winston. A Preacher and a Shrine (1944)
  36. Coleman, J. Winston. Lincoln and "Old Buster" (1944)
  37. Cowgill, Frank B. A Trilogy of Lincoln Verse (1952)
  38. Cox, S.S. The Conscription Bill (1863)
  39. Crispin, William Frost. Abraham Lincoln the First American (1911)
  40. Current, Richard N. Unity, Ethnicity and Abraham Lincoln (1978)

Box 8

  1. Darneille, Frank. History of the Lincoln Homestead (1938)
  2. Donnelly, Ignatius. A tribute to Abraham Lincoln (1941)
  3. England, George Allen. His Name was Mudd. (1929)
  4. Fess, S. D. Abraham Lincoln (1914)
  5. Fish,Stuyvesant Letters of Lee, Meade and Lincoln (1944)
  6. Gay, H. Nelson. Lincoln's Officer of a Command to Garibaldi (1907)
  7. George, David Lloyd. Abraham Lincoln (1923)
  8. Gertz, Elmer. Joe Medill's War (1945)
  9. Godkin, Edwin L. A Letter on Lincoln (1913)
  10. Gordon, Julien.Abraham Lincoln in his Relations to Women. (1894)
  11. Gray, Carl R. The Lincoln Car on Union Pacific 1865 (1937)
  12. Gunn, Bah Life of Abraham Lincoln in verse (1918)
  13. Harknesss, David J. Lincoln and Byron: Lovers of Liberty (1942)
  14. Harkness, David J. Lincoln and the Land- Great Idea (1962)
  15. Harlow, Goetz Elizabeth. The Simplicity of Greatness... (1915)
  16. Hart, F. W. Abraham Lincoln: The Great Commoner (1926)
  17. Haverlin, Carl. Abe Lincoln's Story (1944)
  18. Hertz, Emanuel.Abraham Lincoln-As to His Kindness and Mercy Let Women Testify (1929)
  19. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln at Gettysburg (1938)
  20. Hertz, Emanuel. Face To Face, With Abraham Lincoln (1930)
  21. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln and the Lowly (1929)
  22. Hertz, Emanuel. Anniversary of Birth of Abraham Lincoln (1935)
  23. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln's Loyalty to his Friends (1929)
  24. Hertz, Emanuel. Address on Abraham Lincoln
  25. Hertz, Emanuel. And His Name is Abraham Lincoln-A Family (1929)
  26. Hertz, Emanuel. Note on the Herndon-Weik Collection of Original Lincoln Manuscripts (1934)
  27. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln and the Grand Street Boys (1930)
  28. Hertz, Emanuel. The Children's Lincoln (1930)
  29. Hertz, Emanuel. The Many-Sided Lincoln... (1926)
  30. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln of Illinois: The Testimony of the Nations (1930)
  31. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln in Excelsis (n.d.)
  32. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln (1929)
  33. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln: With the Immortals (1929)
  34. Hertz, Emanuel. Washington and Lincoln: The two Master Builders of the Union (1928)
  35. Hertz, Emanuel. That Man Lincoln (1928)
  36. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln the Harmonizer (1933)
  37. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln- The Seer (1924)
  38. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln- The Guide to Succeeding Presidents (1928)
  39. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln- The Great Leveler (1928)
  40. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln-the Great Anti-Climax after the whirlpool of political Vicissitudes. (1929)
  41. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln -His inventive mind (1930)
  42. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln- more than a country Lawyer. (1928)
  43. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln- what might have been-let his contemporaries testify (1929)
  44. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln: His favorite poems and poets. (1930)
  45. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln: His Law Partners, Clerks, and Office Boys (1930)
  46. Hertz, Emanuel. Abraham Lincoln and Hillel's Golden Rule (1929)
  47. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln, the Man, Now Emerges (1934)
  48. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln's Diplomacy - An Unwritten Chapter (1931)
  49. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln's Jewish Contacts (1929)
  50. Hertz, Emanuel. Lincoln's Spells of Gloom (1930)

Box 9

  1. Heydt, Herman. Lincoln and his Poetic Nature (1937)
  2. Hill, John Wesley. America Needs Today a Reincarnation of the Spirit... (1933)
  3. Hill, John Wesley. Lincoln: The Inspired Leader (1929)
  4. Hill, John Wesley. Lincoln the Lawyer (1933)
  5. Hill, John Wesley. The Principles of Lincoln Applied to Present-Day Problems (1931)
  6. Holden, Walter S. Abraham Lincoln Man of Inner-Conflict (1944)
  7. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Oration (1863)
  8. Hoover, Herbert. Addresses (1935)
  9. Houser, M.L.Abraham Lincoln's Message to Horace Greeley (1929)
  10. Houser, M.L. Some Books that Lincoln Loved (1937)
  11. Howe, Beverly W. He resaved the slaves (1940)
  12. Hubbard, Elbert. Abraham Lincoln Man and American (1917)
  13. Humphrey, William. Col. Silas Adams (1966)
  14. Hyde, Arthur. Address (1934)
  15. Ingham, John Albertson. Abraham Lincoln (1902)
  16. Jacobstein, Meyer. Abraham Lincoln (1927)
  17. James, Jeannie H. Mrs. Lincoln's Clothing (1960)
  18. Johannsen, Robert W. Lincoln and the South in 1860 (1989)
  19. Jones, Edgar DeWitt. Abraham Lincoln Still Lives (1949)
  20. Jones, Thomas. Memories of Lincoln (1934)
  21. Kaine, John Langdon. Lincoln as a Boy knew Him (n.d.)
  22. LaGuardia, Fiorello H. Abraham Lincoln with the Immortals (1928)
  23. Lewis, Joseph. Lincoln the Freethinker (1924)
  24. Lincoln Centennial Association. Lincoln in Springfield (1925)
  25. Lincoln Fellowship. Major William H. Lambert (1912)
  26. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission. Lincoln Sesquicentennial (1959)
  27. Lindstrom, Ralph G. Lincoln and Dynamic Civics (1943)
  28. Lorant, Stefan. Lincoln: His life in Pictures (n.d.)
  29. Love, John L. Lincoln the Emancipator (1909)
  30. Lurhs, Henry E. Lincoln at the Wills Home (1938)
  31. MacVeagh, Wayne. Lincoln at Gettysburg (1909)
  32. McClelland, Stewart W. A. Lincoln, LL. D (1939)
  33. McClintock, John. Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln. (1865)
  34. McMurty, R.Gerald. A Great Lincoln Collection (1941)
  35. McMurty, R. Gerald. Lincoln and the Hutchins Family Singers (1944)
  36. McMurty, R.Gerald. The Harlan-Lincoln Tradition (1959)
  37. McMurty, R. Gerald. The Lincoln' in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (1932)
  38. Markens, Isaac. Lincoln's Masterpiece (1913)
  39. Markham, Edwin. Lincoln, the Man of the People (1919)
  40. Milton, George Fort. Lincoln and the Modern World (1959)

Box 10

  1. Nason, Elias. Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln (1865)
  2. Neis, Anna Marie. Lincoln (1915)
  3. Newman, Ralph Geoffrey. Preserving Lincoln for the Ages (1983)
  4. Nyarad, Nicholas. Memorial Address (1964)
  5. Ohio Lincoln Sesquicentennial Committee. Abraham Lincoln (1959)
  6. Oldroyd, Osborn H. Abraham Lincoln Centenary (1908)
  7. Oldroyd, Osborn H. Lincoln Memorial Collection (1903)
  8. Pease, Theordore Calvin. The Diary of Orville H. Browning: A New Source for Lincoln's Presidency (1923)
  9. Penrose, Wesley Francis. The Immortal Lincoln and the Masterpiece
  10. Pond, Fern Nance. Intellectual New Salem in Lincoln's Day (1938)
  11. Pratt, Harry E. Dr. Anson G. Henry: Lincoln's Physician and Friend (1943)
  12. Procter, Addison G. Lincoln and the Convention of 1860 (1918)
  13. Railway and Locomotive Historical Society. Lincoln on the New Haven and the Boston and Albany Railroads (1934)
  14. Randall, J.G. Has the Lincoln Theme been Exhausted? (1936)
  15. Rankin, Henry B. Lincoln's Cooper Institute Speech (1917)
  16. Ray, P. Orman. The Convention that Nominated Lincoln (1916)
  17. Reincke, Arno B. He could Take it (1934)
  18. Rice, Wallace. Children of the Civil War (1918)
  19. Rice, Wallace. The Underground Railroad (1918)
  20. Robsion, John M. Extension of Remarks (1939)
  21. Roldan, Salvador Camacho. Abraham Lincoln (1865)
  22. Rutherford, Mildred Lewis.Contrasted Lines of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln (1927)
  23. Samson, Flem D. Abraham Lincoln-The Kentuckian (1929)
  24. Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln- The War Years) (n.d.)
  25. Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln goes to Gettysburg (1936)
  26. Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln the Prarie Years (n.d.)
  27. Schechter, S. Abraham Lincoln (1909)
  28. Schleuter, Herman. Abraham Lincoln and the working class (n.d.)
  30. Selby, Paul. Abraham Lincoln the Evolution of his Emancipation Policy (1906)
  31. Shaw, Albert. Abraham Lincoln in Contemporary Caricature (n.d.)
  32. Sheppard, Morris. Abraham Lincoln (1908)
  33. Shipton, A.W. Lincoln's Association with the Journal. (1939)
  34. Sherwood, Robert E. The Playbill for the Plymouth Theatre (1939)
  35. Sherwood, Robert E. Abraham Lincoln (1940)
  36. Speed, James. Opinion on the Constitutional Power of the Military (1865)
  37. Speed, James. Address (1887)
  38. Starr, John W. Jr. Lincoln as President (1910)
  39. Starr, John W. Jr. Did Lincoln and Beecher Pray Together? (1927)
  40. Starr, Merritt. Lincoln Birthday Service (1920)
  41. Starr, Thomas The Will of Katherine Burke has been Probated (1944)
  43. Starr, Thomas. The Greenly Collection (1941)
  44. Stewart, Judd. Abraham Lincoln (1912)
  45. Stoddard, Richard Henry. Abraham Lincoln (1865)
  46. Stone, Andrew. Abraham Lincoln (1865)
  47. Sylvain. Les Contemporains (n.d.)

Box 11

  1. Tapp, Hambleton. Incidents in the Life of Frank Wolford. (1936)
  2. Tarbell, Ida M. Back there in '58 (1907)
  3. Tarbell, Ida M. Father Abraham (1909)
  4. Tarbell, Ida M. Lincoln as a Lawyer (n.d.)
  5. Temple, Wayne C. Builder of Lincoln's Home: Page Eaton (1962)
  6. Temple, Wayne C. Lincoln Rides the Circuit (1960)
  7. Temple, Wayne C. Robert Lee Kinkaid (1960)
  8. Temple, Wayne C. Mary Lee Todd as a "Sailor" (1959)
  9. Temple, Wayne C. Lincoln and the Burners at New Salem (1965)
  10. Temple, Wayne C. Mrs. Mary Edwards Brown tells story of Lincoln's Wedding (1960)
  11. Temple, Wayne C. John McConnell Knew Lincoln (1963)
  12. Temple, Wayne C. Marry Todd Lincoln's Travels (1959)
  13. Temple, Wayne C. Sketch of "Tad" Lincoln (1958)
  14. Temple, Wayne C. Lincoln's Marriage Ceremony (1960)
  15. Temple, Wayne C. Mrs. Frances Jane (Todd) Wallace Describes Lincoln's Wedding (1960)
  16. Temple, Wayne C. Loafing with Lincoln (1961)
  17. Thompson, Dorothy. The Lincoln Papers (1950)
  18. Thomas, Edison. The General Steams Again (1962)
  19. Thorn, James S. Abraham Lincoln (1925)
  20. Tichenor, H.M. Voices From the Past (1921)
  21. Tilden, Samuel J. Three Secession Movements in the United States (1876)
  22. Townsend, William H. The Boarding School of Mary Todd Lincoln (1941)
  23. Townsend, William H. Lincoln's "Rebel" Niece (1945)
  24. Townsend, William H. "The Sage of Lion's Den" (1949)
  25. Truett, Randle Bond. Lincoln in Philately (1959)
  26. Tucker, Beverley. Address to the People of the United States (1865)
  27. Vincent, Elizabeth. In the Days of Lincoln (1924) (1924)
  28. Waring, Fred. Lincoln Victory Song (1924)
  29. Warren, Louis A. The Lincoln Digest (n.d.)
  30. Warren, Louis A. Little Known Boyhood Adventures of A.L. (1940)
  31. Warren, Louis A. Abraham Lincoln Interprets the Constitution (1940)
  32. Warren, Louis A. Little known Lincoln Episodes (1937)
  33. Warren, Louis A. Indiana's Contribution to Abraham Lincoln (1944)
  34. Warren, Louis A. A Day Tour in "Old Kentucky" (1922)
  35. Warren, Louis A. Little Known Facts about Gettysburg Address (1938)
  36. Warren, Louis A. Address (1956)
  37. Warren, Louis A. From White House to Log Cabin (1921)
  38. Warren, Louis A. The Lincoln and La Fallette Families in Pioneer Drama (1929)
  39. Warren, Louis A. Pilgrimage Conducted (1937)

Box 12

  1. Washington, Booker T. An Address on Abraham Lincoln (1909)
  2. Wiek, Jesse W. Abraham Lincoln (1909)
  3. Whipple, Wayne. The Little Life of Lincoln (1909)
  4. White, Charles. Lincoln and the Newspapers (1923)
  5. White, Charles. Grant's Tribute to Lincoln (n.d.)
  6. Whitney, H.C. "Lincoln's Lost Speech" (1896)
  7. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. The Works of Abraham Lincoln (1941)
  8. Wilson, Samuel. Abraham Lincoln an Apostle of Temperance and Prohibition (n.d.)
  9. Wines, Frederick Howard. The Greatness of Abraham Lincoln (1905)
  10. Wing, Henry E. When Lincoln Kissed Me. (1913)
  11. Wise, Boyd. Lincoln in Drama (1939)
  12. Witt, Peter. Abraham Lincoln. (1932)
  13. Wolfe, Paul. Lincoln - Can We Learn From Him (1944)
  14. Wolford, Frank. Letter to President Lincoln (1864)
  15. Worth, Jack. "Honest Abe" (1936)
  16. Unauthored. Lincoln the Hoosier (1927)
  17. Unauthored. Souvenir of Abraham Lincoln (1908)
  18. Unauthored. Notable Portraits of Abraham Lincoln (1938)
  19. Unauthored. Lincoln's Springfield (1938)
  20. Unauthored. The Lincoln Foundation (n.d)
  21. Unauthored. Lincoln Centennial Association (1910)
  22. Unauthored. Lincoln Centennial Association (1924)
  23. Unauthored. The Day Mr. Lincoln Spoke at Gettysburg. (n.d)
  24. Unauthored. Addresses (1932)
  25. Unauthored. Lincoln Centennial Association. (1924)
  26. Unauthored. Lincoln Essay Contest (n.d.)
  27. Unauthored. Lincoln's Poems (1941)
  28. Unauthored. Commemorative Services- Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln. (1934)
  29. Unauthored. Republican Club Dinner (1897)
  30. Unauthored. Lincoln Dinner Golden Jubilee (1936)
  31. Unauthored. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1959)
  32. Unauthored. Abraham Lincoln- An Appriciation (n.d)
  33. Unauthored. The Book of A. Lincoln Watches (1924)
  34. Unauthored. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Owen (1922)
  35. Unauthored. La Morte du President Lincoln (n.d.)
  36. Unauthored. Abraham Lincoln Said (n.d.)

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