Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd
626.405.2100
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Abraham Lincoln, Courtesy of the Huntington Library
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Feb 7, 2009 – Apr 27, 2009
Mondays (noon–4:30pm)
Wednesdays–Fridays (noon–4:30pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–4:30pm)
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$15 weekdays / $20 weekends
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Exhibition curator Olga Tsapina leads a tour on Thursday, February 26 at 4:30pm. Advance registration is required.
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters, notes, photos, speeches, pamphlets, broadsides, autographs, and sundry memorabilia here provide valuable clues for the public's often incomplete understanding of Lincoln — both the man and the president — while also shedding light on the evolution of a 150-year historical archive. Among the material related to the 16th chief executive is a bronze life mask and cast of his hands, a letter bemoaning a failed courtship, and a handwritten pass with which Lincoln sent his bodyguard to Richmond — leaving the president defenseless on the night of his assassination at Ford's Theatre.
