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The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana Founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1928 as the Lincoln Historical Research Foundation, The Lincoln Museum houses the nation’s largest private collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia. Executives of Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (organized in Fort Wayne in 1905) were determined to establish a museum and research center in gratitude for Robert Todd Lincoln’s agreement that his father’s image should become the new firm’s official logo. As one described the goal of this project: “No motive of commercialism or profit entered into our plans to assemble this wealth of Lincolniana—we seek merely to provide the means and the channel through which there may continue to flow an ever-increasing volume of information concerning Lincoln, especially to the youth of our land, that they may be influenced to think and to live as Lincoln did—‘with malice toward none; with charity for all.’” Lincoln scholar Louis Warren was hired as the first director. He started work on Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, 1928, and published the first issue of Lincoln Lore on April 15, 1929, the sixty-fourth anniversary of Lincoln’s death. Today, Lincoln Lore is the longest continuously published periodical devoted exclusively to Abraham Lincoln and his era. The museum’s ever-growing collection now includes more than eighteen thousand volumes, numerous Lincoln artifacts (including the inkwell he used to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, his pocketknife, legal wallet, and shawl), three hundred Lincoln manuscripts, more than ten thousand nineteenth -century photographs, prints, broadsides, and political cartoons, and the Lincoln family’s personal photographs. The museum also houses extensive art and Civil War collections and hosts a number of exhibitions, educational programs, and lectures annually. The Lincoln Museum is online at www.TheLincolnMuseum.org. ...

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