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January 09, 2009: State of Indiana Received Lincoln Collection

"Valued at more than $20 million, this is the world’s largest private collection of memorabilia from Abraham Lincoln’s personal and presidential life. It will be housed at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis and the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) in Fort Wayne. Among the more than 20,000 items in the collection are signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment; three-dimensional artifacts including Lincoln’s wallet and a chair he sat in for some of his most famous photographs, artwork, thousands of documents, photographs, prints and rare books. "

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