New Salem
by Guy Fraker, Mark B. PohladSpotlight on: New Salem by Guy Fraker and Mark Pohlad When Lincoln Walked the Streets of New Salem By Guy Fraker The itinerant Abraham Lincoln arrived in New Salem 1831, settling there until 1837. During this period, he spent considerable time in the Sand Ridge area to the west, to which a number of New […]
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The Woman Who Found Lincoln at Gettysburg: Josephine Cobb of the National Archives
by Mark B. PohladThe Woman Who Found Lincoln at Gettysburg: Josephine Cobb of the National Archives By Mark B. Pohlad National Archives For nearly ninety years there were no known photographs of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. That changed dramatically in 1952 when the intrepid Washington, D.C., archivist Josephine Cobb (1906-86) went searching—and found him. She enlarged a mislabeled […]
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