Further. In 1889, they established the Illinois State Historical Library and since that time we have been collecting all the treasures that help illustrate the wonderful past of illinois. As you might imagine, the illinois story is not complete without a really close look at the life of Abraham Lincoln. In the lincoln collection we have 52,000 uses the cover every aspect of his life. The collection would include about 18,000 autographs written about Abraham Lincoln. He is the most written about american ever, which is quite staggering. On any given day a visitor to the museum is able to see about 100 original pieces from our collection that is on display. There is always a reason to come back to the Abraham Lincoln president ial museum because we are rotating the items out, putting new pieces on display at the time and we always like to say that a visitor that comes today, if you come back one year later you are going to see a whole new group of 100 pieces from his life. So, today i pu
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Hurston. Books that shaped america monday, september 18th at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan now, our free mobile video app, or online at cspan. Org. Is so Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Museum opened its doors in 2005, but our collection goes back much further. In 1889 they established the Illinois State historical library, and ever since that time we have been collecting all the treasures that help illustrate illinois wonderful past. And as you might imagine, the illinois story ist not complete without a a really close look at Abraham Lincolns life. In our lin lincoln collection, we have about 52,000 pieces that cover every aspect of Abraham Lincolns life. That collection would include about 18,000 monographs written about Abraham Lincoln. He is the most writtenabout american ever, which is quite staggering. So on any given day, a visitor to the museum is open to see about a hundred original pieces from our collection that are on display. And theres always a reason to come bac