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An anonymous buyer purchased the three top-selling items, including a pair of blood-stained gloves that the president had on ...
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for ...
WGLT talks to Raymond McKoski, the author of a new biography of David Davis, whose mansion and historic site in Bloomington ...
The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln's pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for ...
The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...
Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...
A massive Abraham Lincoln auction, the most extensive sale of items from America's 16th president, yielded big prices Wednesday in Chicago. Several of the top-selling pieces in the 144-item auction ...
The items, which were intended to be part of a permanent collection at the Lincoln Presidential Foundation in Illinois, were sold to help reduce the foundation’s debt.
"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...
Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.