United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission Office of the Research Director records, 1957-1960 (bulk 1960). - 33,500 items. 38 containers. 12 linear feet.

Open to research.

Correspondence, minutes, writings, reports, bibliographies, research notes, and other records relating chiefly to the commission's publication of Lincoln Day by Day: a Chronology, 1809-1865 (1960; 3 volumes), compiled by William E. Baringer and Charles Percy Powell, under the editorship of Earl Schenck Miers. Other material relates to the publication of the commission's Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1809-1959: Handbook of Information (1958); Howard K. Beale; Illinois Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission; Indiana Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission; Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia; and James Monaghan's bibliography of Lincoln.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012020

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Baringer, William E. 1909-2000.
Beale, Howard K. 1899-1959.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Anniversaries, etc.
Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972.
Monaghan, James, 1854-1949.
Powell, Charles Percy, 1899-1982.


Illinois. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission.
Indiana. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission.
United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission. Lincoln Day by Day.
Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia.