The Lincoln Collection at the Allen County Public Library has a YouTube video channel with over 20 videos about Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection at Archive.org has over 15,000 ebooks available to billions of people around the world. Volumes that in the past may have been opened only a few times a year are now often downloaded thousands of times each month! Links to those ebooks are still being organized on our pages by topics such as cemetery, church, or school.
HUGE Abraham Lincoln COLLECTION (See the TOP FIVE RARE items inside) by Daniel Beals uploaded May 28, 2022 Story originally aired Dec. 17, 2020 on YouTube.
“A top five list for a collection like this is extremely difficult to pick.” Sr. Lincoln Librarian Emily Rapoza manages the massive Abraham Lincoln archive beneath the Allen County Public Library downtown. On normal days, she would be giving tours of the collection to families and students, but the pandemic put a temporary stop to that. Instead, we asked her to list the top five items that are either rare, have an interesting story, or popular to those who visit the library’s vaults. The five items are listed on YouTube.
Lincoln was shot April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president of the U.S. after Lincoln's assassination. Thousands of Lincoln photos, documents and books are online in the Lincoln Collection at the Allen County Public Library which also has speaker presentation videos archived as Lincoln Programs at the Allen County Public Library on Archive.org where the Description states: This collection showcases library-sponsored programs based around the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. The Allen County Public Library has been documenting Lincoln events at the library since 2010. These video clips are available to authors, scholars, TV producers, educators, students, Lincoln enthusiasts, and the general public. Topics include little-known facts about the Lincoln family, descriptions of life during the American Civil War, details about Lincoln’s assassination and much more.
This gilt-edged leather-bound copy of “Decisive Battles since Waterloo: The Most Important Military Events from 1815 to 1887” by Thomas Knox was printed in 1900. Four Civil War battles – the Monitor and Merrimac, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Five Forks – have chapters in the book, but otherwise there is no connection to Lincoln in the text. However, when the pages of the book are displayed in just the right way, Lincoln appears. The illustration of Lincoln’s life, from the cabin to the White House, is a fore-edge painting, hidden from view until the pages are correctly seen. Fore-edge paintings first appeared on books as early as the Middle Ages, but became especially popular in the late 19th century.
There are thousands of quotations—some sentimental, some humorous, some wise—attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Many, however, fall into the “Lincoln never said that” category. The quotation on this 1908 postcard published by M.T. Sheahan of Boston is one example. In this case, the quotation is a near miss—Lincoln likely said something like this in his Farewell Address to the crowd at the Springfield, Illinois, Great Western Railroad station as he left for Washington in February 1861. Reporters at the scene published three versions of his remarks, one of which bears a resemblance to the postcard quotation: “I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained [George Washington], and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance without which I cannot succeed, but with which success is certain.” Although not an accurate quotation, Sheahan’s version fit better on a postcard.
Located in downtown Fort Wayne, ACPL's Main Library houses the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research. This space features original items such as photographs of Abraham Lincoln and his family; letters and documents to and from President Lincoln; diaries of Civil War soldiers and much more. Come experience the impressive marrying of original, historic materials with interactive technology today! For more information and the Center's hours, visit acpl.info/Rolland
Located in downtown Fort Wayne, ACPL's Main Library houses the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research. This space features original items such as photographs of Abraham Lincoln and his family; letters and documents to and from President Lincoln; diaries of Civil War soldiers and much more. Come experience the impressive marrying of original, historic materials with interactive technology today!
For more information and the Center's hours, visit acpl.info/Rolland
The Rolland Center for Lincoln Research is featured on Education Snapshots! Located in the downtown Fort Wayne Allen County Public Library, this center features thousands of items previously unavailable to the public, with both physical and digital displays curated by ACPL’s dedicated team.
Explore the life and times of Abraham Lincoln at the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research inside the Allen County Public Library! Interactive, immersive technology brings to life this incredible collection of photos, letters, diaries, and more.
Details: bit.ly/lincolnacpl
The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and the Friends of the Lincoln Collection are thrilled to announce that the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research is officially open.
The last descendent of Abraham Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, passed away at the age of eighty-one on Christmas Eve, 1985. According to friends, "Bob" had inherited the famous wit and humor of his Lincoln ancestors, but he was unique in his enthusiasm for thrills. For example, he collected guns and fast cars, while Lincoln family heirlooms collected dust in his farmhouse shed. For these reasons, his contributions in the final years of his life to Lincoln's family scholarship forged, for him, an unexpected legacy. In the late 1970s, Bob permitted historians to search all 24 rooms of his "ancestral" home in Vermont for items of historical value. The search yielded an extraordinary file of family letters documenting Mary Lincoln's so-called insanity. Bob "resisted the urge to destroy the file" and handed it over instead to Lincoln researchers, hoping that the family letters might inspire compassion for his great-grandmother "in regard to this very disturbing period of her life."
To see more images of Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith visit: Beckwith
