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Abraham Lincoln fonds [textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1790-1916.

Reference:

R2532-0-5-E, MG24-B5

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98711

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Abraham Lincoln fonds
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Date(s):

1790-1916.

Place of creation:

United States

Extent:

99 microfilm reels : positive.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of the accumulated public and private papers of Abraham Lincoln. This material is located on microfilm reels M-371 to M-464, M-5894 to M-5898.

Microfilm reel M-371 contains a list of correlating volumes and mounting sheet numbers as well as an explanation of the procedures used in arranging and cataloguing the collection.

Provenance:

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Biography/Administrative history:

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 : Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States from 1860-1865. He was admitted to the bar in 1836, and served four terms in the state legislature. He represented Illinois as a Whig in Congress in 1849. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1858, and lost to Stephen Douglas. As a republican, he was elected President in 1860, and continued in office throughout the American Civil War. A week after the surrender of the Confederate Army, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a nominal index listing writers and recipients of letters alphabetically and chronologically. This index is also available on microfilm reels M-5894 to M-5898. MSS0137 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001355.pdf
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001354.pdf

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Arrangement note:

The fonds was assembled by Robert Todd Lincoln and arranged in chronological order.

Location of originals note:

The originals are held by the Library of Congress._

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG24-B5
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Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 137] 21

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-371--M-464;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-5894--M-5898;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-07-24