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Word: lincolniana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent issues the revered Atlantic Monthly published three articles on the life of Abraham Lincoln by a Miss Wilma Frances Minor, based upon hitherto unknown Lincolniana in the possession of Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fraud | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Passed a Senate bill appropriating some $50,000 to purchase from O. H. Oldroyd the house in which Lincoln died and the Lincolniana now housed there. (Bill went to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Abraham Lincoln comes in for attention even in academic circles. No amount of searching for dates can account for the recent burst of Lincolniana. Professor Morison is not to be outdone by the Chicago bard, and he will talk of Lincoln and secession in History 32b at 11 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall Aesthetic vagabonds who dread facts, and even I often do, can go to Fogg instead and see the Van Eycks in all their glory, for Professor Edgell is talking at the same time in Fine Arts 1d on Flemish painting of the fifteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

Since his death many collections of "Lincolniana" have been made throughout the country, but probably the best and most complete is that owned by the University, with the possible exception of the collection in the Congressional Library at Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Celebrates Lincoln's Birthday by Exhibiting Lincolnian Treasures--Contains Letter to Harvard Son | 2/12/1925 | See Source »

...Library recently acquired a large addition to its Lincolniana when the late "Widow" Nolen bequeathed his famous collection to the University. This remarkable collection consists not only of a large number of books, but pamphlets, magazine articles, and a very complete collection of busts and statuettes. It is still lying in the basement of the Library awaiting an inventory, but as soon as this is made, it probably will to be on exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Celebrates Lincoln's Birthday by Exhibiting Lincolnian Treasures--Contains Letter to Harvard Son | 2/12/1925 | See Source »

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