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albs_SUPAdminSeptember 10, 2024

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

UPDATE: Our own Bjorn Skaptason visited the Iannelli bust in person. Watch him talk about it! UPDATE: The bust is completed and installed in Paris! Read about the unveiling ceremony. UPDATE: Thanks to Judy Barclay and the Paris-Chicago Sister City Committee the ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminJune 3, 2023

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Richard Robert Donnelley opened his Chicago printing company in 1864. In 1870, he changed the name to Lakeside Printing and Publishing Company. Rising from the ashes of the 1871 fire, by 1901 they moved into their own building. Located in ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 30, 2017

Memorial Day at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery

Yesterday was Memorial Day. The usual story about it's origin is that the holiday was started by Union General John Logan. Logan was commander-in-chief of a Union veterans’ organization called the Grand Army of the Republic. Logan issued a decree establishing ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 3, 2017

Lincoln’s Journey Home

On this date 152 years ago Lincoln's body was lying in state here in Chicago. Throughout the day-at a rate of 7,000 per hour-mourners filed past the casket paying their final respects to President Lincoln. That evening, the Lincoln Funeral ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 1, 2017

Block Museum Receives Steichen Gift

Followers of Carl Sandburg and his family will be happy to know that Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art has just received a major gift of Edward Steichen's photographs. These 44 photographs are a gift from Richard and Jackie Hollander. These ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 10, 2017

Of Local Interest Art Young at Loyola University’s Cudahy Library

Anthony Mourek, long time friend, colleague and fellow Manuscript Society member, collects the political cartoons of Art Young. His collection is featured in an exhibit at the Cudahy Library, 6515 N. Kenmore Avenue, Chicago. The library is on the Lakeshore ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminDecember 16, 2016

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Featured in Chicago Tribune

Take a look at today's Chicago Tribune article and accompanying video about Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Owner and President, Daniel Weinberg shares insights about the shop, our new Authors Voice® program and his over 40 years in the business of books. Chicago ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminSeptember 26, 2016

Officially Open!

We are still stocking shelves and hanging things here at Abraham Lincoln Book Shop; but we are Open For Business! Please stop by to see our new shop at 824 W. Superior St, Suite 100. It is at Superior St. and ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 16, 2016

Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: A History, by President Lincoln’s private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, stands even today as the most massive single work ever written on the sixteenth president. The publication of the ten-volume set by the Century Company in ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 1, 2016

Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life

Most of us encounter the influential short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge in our high school literature classes. Lit teachers like to assign Ambrose Bierce’s haunting tale of psychological terror because of its innovative use of plot devices, ... Read More

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Memorial Day at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery

Lincoln’s Journey Home

Block Museum Receives Steichen Gift

Of Local Interest Art Young at Loyola University’s Cudahy Library

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Featured in Chicago Tribune

Officially Open!

Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln

Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life

New Acquisitions

Thurlow Weed, Life of Thurlow Weed, ...

Rogers Group, Council of War

Jeff Broome, Custer Into the West. ...

Donald W. Moore, Where the Custer ...

James Willert, Little Bighorn Diary

Philip H. Sheridan, Personal Memoirs, 1st ...

Phyllis Lee Levin, Abigail Adams: A ...

Abraham Lincoln, Clipped Signature with Original ...

George Washington, Autograph Signature, With Closing ...

Comte de Paris, The Battle of ...