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Indiana retains Lincoln Museum collection
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“The collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia long housed at Fort Wayne’s shuttered Lincoln Museum will stay in Indiana, state officials said Friday.

Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indiana State Museum President and CEO Barry Dressel announced this morning in Indianapolis that a coalition from the state, led by the museum and the Allen County Public Library, will receive the $20 million artifact collection.”

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“The collection will be split between the Allen County Public Library and the State Museum, with the library in general receiving the collection’s books, documents and manuscripts. The state museum will get the three-dimensional artifacts.”

Lincoln collection stays in Indiana
ACPL will be home to documents; State Museum gets artifacts
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“After a lengthy and secretive search, a $20 million collection related to the nation’s 16th president – up for grabs after the Lincoln Museum closed in the city in late June – will go to a consortium of the Indiana State Museum and Allen County Public Library, the Lincoln Financial Foundation announced today.”

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“The extensive collection of the 230,000-some rare documents and artifacts were housed in the now-defunct local museum, 200 E. Berry St., before it closed June 30 after 80 years in Fort Wayne, where Lincoln Financial was based until 1998. Included in the collection – which was built up over about a century by the Philadelphia-based Lincoln Financial Foundation – are photographs from the 19th century, a massive gathering of books about Lincoln that includes an unique Braille collection, several busts and hundreds of Lincoln signed manuscripts and documents.”

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“The Allen County Public Library will receive and house the manuscripts, books, and periodicals, playing off its expertise in preserving, cataloging, and digitizing rare books, manuscripts and records, the state museum said.”